Elevate Aura writes the CAN software that runs inside robotics and equipment: the node logic on each controller, the message handling that keeps the bus predictable, and the bridge that carries selected CAN data out to a companion app or a cloud dashboard.
CAN bus software development is writing the code that lets the controllers inside one machine exchange short, prioritised messages over a shared two-wire bus. Elevate Aura writes that code on the nodes: what each controller publishes, what it listens for, how often, and what it does when a message it depends on stops arriving.
Arbitration on CAN is decided by message identifier, so the identifier plan is a design decision rather than an afterthought. We agree the message set and identifier priorities with your team, implement them on your controllers in C/C++ or MicroPython, and test the behaviour on your hardware under load and under fault.
Where the data has to leave the machine, we also write the bridge: a node or small gateway that filters the traffic worth keeping and forwards it to a companion app or a telemetry pipeline. The transceivers, wiring, termination and the boards themselves stay with your hardware team. This is a software-only engagement.
CAN faults rarely look like software faults, which is why they are usually found late and on a live machine.
Priorities were never planned, so a chatty status message delays the one that had to be on time.
A controller drops off the bus and the rest of the machine keeps going as though nothing happened.
Periodic messages were added one at a time until the bus was fuller than anyone had checked.
Rich diagnostic traffic exists on the bus, and none of it reaches the people who support the machine.
Identifiers, payload layout, senders, listeners and rates agreed with your team.
Transmit and receive logic written on each controller in your toolchain.
Timeouts, missing nodes, error states and safe defaults defined and implemented.
Filtering and forwarding to a companion app or cloud pipeline, where you need it.
Run on your boards with bus load and fault injection, with logs kept.
Message documentation, source and build instructions, owned by you.
Workflow: Each axis controller publishes state and faults on planned identifiers, and the supervising controller acts on them or stops.
Result: The machine has one agreed view of itself instead of several.
Workflow: A bridge node filters fault and usage frames off the bus and forwards them to a cloud pipeline.
Result: Support sees the fault before the customer rings.
Workflow: A gateway translates a small command set from the companion app into CAN frames, with limits enforced on the node.
Result: An operator interface that cannot put the bus into an unsafe state.
Axis, sensor and supervisor controllers.
Multi-board devices with internal traffic.
Machines with distributed control.
Adding a gateway to an installed machine.
Bus software without a specialist hire.
A prototype bus made fit to ship.
Either. If your team has a message and identifier plan we implement it as written. If not, we define it with you: which node sends what, payload layout and scaling, send rates and identifier priorities, and we document it for your own engineers and integrators.
C or C++ on most production controllers, and MicroPython where the board supports it and the timing allows. We work to the chip and toolchain your hardware team has already chosen rather than asking you to move to something we prefer.
Yes. A bridge filters the frames worth keeping and forwards them onward, over BLE or Wi-Fi to an app or into a pipeline on Supabase or Azure. See device-to-cloud telemetry software.
No. Elevate Aura is software-only. Transceivers, isolation, termination, cable runs and the boards themselves are your hardware team's work. We write the software that runs on what you provide and test it on your hardware.
Also covered. See Modbus software development for RTU and TCP, and embedded software development for UART and other serial links.
Tell us how many nodes sit on the bus, what each one must say, and whether the data has to leave the machine. We will scope the CAN layer and any bridge to an app or cloud.
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