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What is a vehicle data bus?
Think of the vehicle data bus as the computer network within your vehicle. The network helps to transmit information from various sensors to the main computing center in the vehicle.
What is the Planar VMC SmartDisplay?
This new product is a vehicle data bus terminal combining Planar’s electroluminescent display technology, which has over 25 years of proven durability in harsh conditions, with embedded software and a microprocessor to interface with a vehicle’s data bus. The module leverages scripting tools for rapid development of the user interface.
What applications are enabled from an interface to a vehicle data bus?
An interface to a vehicle data bus provides both the operator and owner of a vehicle with valuable information and benefits: reduced maintenance costs, increased efficiency of operation, and improved safety. With the VMC SmartDisplay, an operator can control various vehicle systems that help with troubleshooting and diagnostics, maintenance scheduling, fault reporting, lube and maintenance guides and safety checks.
Specialty vehicles can derive even more benefits by having "vehicle intelligence." Specialty vehicles operate in harsh environments, experiencing high-duty cycle, heavy vibration and extreme temperatures. Market demands for increasing productivity requirements are pushing the adoption of vehicle messaging, automated reporting, and vehicle tracking systems. When combined with the trends of rising fuel costs and more emissions regulations, vehicle designers are pushed to explore increasingly complex vehicle control systems.
Why choose the Planar VMC SmartDisplay?
Manufacturers of commercial, industrial, mining, agricultural and off-road vehicles have been limited in their options for adding intelligence to their products. They are typically faced with choosing between complicated, in-house development or foregoing features required by their customers.
Planar's VMC Smart Display is the fastest and most cost effective way to equip an industrial or commercial vehicle dashboard with an interface to an SAE J1708 or J1939 or CAN data bus. A specialty vehicle manufacturer can now offer more features without burdening their development teams with "ground up" design work.
How does the VMC SmartDisplay make it so much easier to develop screens for a vehicle user interface?
The VMC SmartDisplay is bundled with VMC ScreenDesigner. This unique software development tool enables vehicle designers and engineers to rapidly prototype the user interface for accessing vehicle information. They can use scripting functions instead of code to accelerate the development process. Based on past experience this tool has reduced the cost of developing screens by 80%.
What are the important selection criteria for a vehicle data bus terminal?
Is the interface to the vehicle data bus proven in the field?
Does it interface with vehicle bus standards: SAE J1708, J1939 or CAN data bus?
How quickly can the user interface be created?
How easy is it to integrate the terminal in the vehicle cab or dashboard?
How well does the display present the information to the operator of the vehicle?
Can the display withstand the vibrations and extreme temperatures required by an in-vehicle application?
What types of vehicle manufacturers can benefit the most from Planar's VMC SmartDisplay?
Specialty vehicle manufacturers have the most to gain from the rugged display, proven integration and vehicle intelligence enabled by the VMC Smart Display. Specialty vehicle manufacturers provide essential equipment for a variety of vital industries, including:
- Agriculture
- Civil engineering
- Combat engineering
- Construction
- Drilling
- Earthworks
- Excavations
- Forestry
- Forklifts
- Mining
- Waste handling
What are the different types of specialty vehicles?
Ask any preschool age boy and they can likely provide you with a long list of construction vehicles and other heavy equipment that would all be great candidates for a VMC SmartDisplay. You can also see the list below.
- Aerial work platform / Lift table
- Air-Track
- Agricultural Tractors
- Articulated hauler
- Articulated Truck
- Asphalt Paver
- Asphalt plant
- Backhoe Loader, Backhoe
- Boomtruck
- Bulldozer
- Cherry picker
- Cold Planer
- Combat engineering vehicle (CEV)
- Compact Excavator
- Concrete batch plant
- Construction & Mining Tractor
- Construction & Mining Trucks
- Crane
- Cure Rig
- Dragline Excavator
- Dredging
- Drilling Machine
- Excavator (Wheel)
- Excavator ("Bagger" Or "Digger")
- Feller Buncher
- Forklift truck
- Forklift
- Fresno Scraper
- Front Shovel
- Graders
- Harvester
- Highway 10 yard rear dump
- Highway bottom dump (stiff), pup (belly train), triple
- Highway end dump and side dump
- Highway transfer, transfer train
- Highway transit-mixer
- Hydromechanical Work Tools
- Knuckleboom Loader (Trailer Mount) and Knuckleboom Loader (Trailer Mount)
- Logging Equipment
- Mining Equipment
- Motor Grader
- Passenger Cars
- Pile Driver
- Pipelayer
- Reclaimer & Soil Stabilizer
- Roadheader
- Road Roller (Aka Roller-Compactor)
- Rotary Tiller, Rototiller Or Rotovator
- Skid Steer Loader
- Skidder
- Skip loader (skippy)
- Slipform Paver
- Soil stabilizer
- Soil and Landfill Compactors
- Steam shovel
- Stomper
- Street sweeper
- Telescopic Handlers
- Track Harvester
- Track loader
- Track Skidder
- Track-Type Tractors (Bulldozer)
- Tractor
- Trencher (machine)
- Tunnel boring machine
- Underground Mining Equipment
- Venturi-Mixer
- Vibratory Compactors
- Wheel Dozers – Soil Compactors
- Water wagon
- Wheel Forwarder
- Wheel Loader – Integrated Toolcarriers (Front Loader)
- Wheel Skidder
- Wheel Tractor-Scraper
- Yarder
Adapted from Source: Wikipedia "Engineering vehicle" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_vehicle
Will the VMC SmartDisplay work with all of Planar's displays?
It can be adapted to work with any of our AMLCD products, but the current version of the VMC SmartDisplay is designed to work with our most popular model of electroluminescent display, the EL 320.240.36 HB.
What other types of display enhancement services are available?
Planar has over 25 years providing displays for rugged and harsh environments. Through this experience, we have developed numerous display enhancement services including:
- Performance films and enhancements
- Anti-glare
- Anti-reflective
- Vandal glass
- Optical glass bonding
- Custom enclosures and brackets
- Bezels
- Mounts
- Chassis
- Stands
Can I get a sample of a VMC SmartDisplay?
Samples of Planar's LX VMC SmartDisplay are available now. You can contact sales@planar.com or visit www.planarembedded.com/landing/vehicle-data-bus to request a sample