Information about a single controller area network (CAN) signal and the messages it receives and transmits.
Type: objectProperties: 8Required: 7
AutomotiveConnected VehiclesIoTTelematicsVehicle Data
CanSignal is a JSON Structure definition published by Amazon IoT FleetWise, describing 8 properties, of which 7 are required. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.
{
"$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-iot-fleetwise/refs/heads/main/json-structure/iot-fleetwise-can-signal-structure.json",
"name": "CanSignal",
"description": "Information about a single controller area network (CAN) signal and the messages it receives and transmits.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"messageId": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/nonNegativeInteger"
},
{
"description": "The ID of the message."
}
]
},
"isBigEndian": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/boolean"
},
{
"description": "Whether the byte ordering of a CAN message is big-endian."
}
]
},
"isSigned": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/boolean"
},
{
"description": "Whether the message data is specified as a signed value."
}
]
},
"startBit": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/nonNegativeInteger"
},
{
"description": "<p>Indicates the beginning of the CAN signal. This should always be the least significant bit (LSB).</p> <p>This value might be different from the value in a DBC file. For little endian signals, <code>startBit</code> is the same value as in the DBC file. For big endian signals in a DBC file, the start bit is the most significant bit (MSB). You will have to calculate the LSB instead and pass it as the <code>startBit</code>.</p>"
}
]
},
"offset": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/double"
},
{
"description": "The offset used to calculate the signal value. Combined with factor, the calculation is <code>value = raw_value * factor + offset</code>."
}
]
},
"factor": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/double"
},
{
"description": "A multiplier used to decode the CAN message."
}
]
},
"length": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/nonNegativeInteger"
},
{
"description": "How many bytes of data are in the message."
}
]
},
"name": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/CanSignalName"
},
{
"description": "The name of the signal."
}
]
}
},
"required": [
"messageId",
"isBigEndian",
"isSigned",
"startBit",
"offset",
"factor",
"length"
]
}
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