# CANopen Reviews **Vendor:** Embedded Systems Academy **Category:** [Network Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/network-monitoring) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About CANopen CANopen Magic is a versatile software tool to monitor, analyze, trace, configure, simulate and test CANopen and CANopen FD networks and devices. It contains functions for the entire lifetime of a CANopen network: from development and test to system integration and performance analysis. Use sophisticated trace filtering and node access to monitor, analyze and test all aspects of your network. Simulate nodes that are still under development. ## CANopen Reviews ### 1. Specialist in CAN/CANopen and deterministic networks (TTE, TSN, EtherCAT, ...) **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** CANopen integrated services for network management (NMT), publish-subscribe model using PDO, and client-server model using SDO for large data transfers and runtime configuration **What do you dislike about CANopen?** Difficult to estimate latency and jitter for data transfers between the nodes. if there are hard real-time constraints, synchronous PDO transfers shall be used **Recommendations to others considering CANopen:** It would help if you also considered EtherCAT depending on the requirements of your network. Please pay special attention to CANopen implementation you plan to use since it could include faults, provide reduced functionality, or have limiting constraints. **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** CANopen provides solutions for deterministic control networks and networks for control and telemetry data exchange. CANopen advantages include communication compatibility and interoperability, ease in network configuration and management, and massive support for HW devices, controllers, and SW applications. ### 2. It’s highly safe, robust industrial protocol **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil D. | System Software Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** SDO, PDO and very clear objects classification **What do you dislike about CANopen?** Sometimes there are too many objects and certain designers abuse it by adding too many custom objects. **Recommendations to others considering CANopen:** It is highly recommended because of simplicity , network topologies and compact deployments. **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** The CANOpen is helping to model APIS for end applications. Like valve control and configuration is being done in top of CANOPEN with ease. ### 3. CANopen : Flexible, open and versatile solution for data communication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** Openness and possibility of applying for many industries for data communications **What do you dislike about CANopen?** CANopen is not scalabe with respect to other bus communication technologies. Physical layer can be made intact. **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** We, at Vector provide off-the-shelf solutions to help customers beat the quick time-to-market problems with easy tools ### 4. CANOpen a really nice industrial protocol **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** The flexibility it brings compares to other industrial protocols like Profibus or Profinet, and the excellent communication structure (SDOs, PDOs, etc..) **What do you dislike about CANopen?** Perhaps for someone that hasn't been in touch before with a CANOpen the learning curve might be a little tricky (but for the rest, the benefits outweigh the problems). **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are designing a new machine using two stepper motors (that are controlled via CANOpen protocol). The possibility to set a specific set of registers that the steppers can be reportings in case of changes (e.g., Temperature of the Motor, torque, etc...) ### 5. Can open is a very stable protocol for sensors and actuators! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** You can set priorities By the arbitration. **What do you dislike about CANopen?** The speed is low and that limits the range of the application. **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did networks between motors and sensors. A Linux machine was the master and sent commands to them. The communication was very stable and I was able to set priorities with the most critical devices to have the highest. This way, I built a trustworthy communication for my machine. ### 6. CanOpen For Wind Renewal Energy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** Multi Master functionality is most useful function of CanOpen **What do you dislike about CANopen?** Maximum number of Application data that can be sent in single frame **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Canopen for wind energy application. Here master has good control over its slaves and due to multimaster functionality any slave can feed emergency data to master any time. ### 7. Not user friendly. Manuals are written poorly. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** I like how you can view the status of multiple devices on the single interface. I also like how you can configure nodes from your laptop. **What do you dislike about CANopen?** Difficult to get understand the canopen magic interface. Takes some time getting use to. Not very intuitive. **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am configuring CAN devices for a mining machine. ### 8. Using CANopen in avionics purpose **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** communication validation at hardware level, possibility to connect multiple devices to one data bus **What do you dislike about CANopen?** need to program any type of message into the device **Recommendations to others considering CANopen:** If you are familiar with other protocols based on CAN, I recommend you start with CANopen **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** retrieval of data from critical equipment at specified times. ### 9. CANopen is the best reliable & efficient open source communication protocol I have used so far. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** Integrity of packet for corresponding destination, collision free communication **What do you dislike about CANopen?** There is nothing to dislike about CANopen **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have implemented CANopen for communication between multiple nodes of ECU in our embedded Linux projects. It is completely finite state machine based protocol which helped me to solve multiple issues in our project. ### 10. I have little experience in automotive industry **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** The CANopen protocols supported by many international manufacturers **What do you dislike about CANopen?** Limited connectivity options and it will reduce the signal integrity based on termination resistors **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I has limited distance within 40 meters ### 11. CANopen Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** Plug and play capability of CANOPEN networks **What do you dislike about CANopen?** Limited network length and limited baudrate **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Number of nodes connected. It will be useful in complex environment ### 12. It is very easy to use and easily understandable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2021 **What do you like best about CANopen?** All things are best I feel. Each and everything **What do you dislike about CANopen?** Nothing like that all things are good in **What problems is CANopen solving and how is that benefiting you?** All simulation on CAN ## CANopen Discussions - [What is the difference between CAN and CANopen?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-can-and-canopen) - 1 comment - [View CANopen pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/canopen/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+15%3A57%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=41b9141d-0f72-44bd-9cd3-d55da50d3e79&secure%5Btoken%5D=5d290272062cd53a6e3f66c9c4c47fd487e3ed92ec80e4234e7c94a65d8eac58&format=llm_user) ## CANopen Features **Functionality** - Performance Monitoring - Alerting - Improvement Suggestions - Multi-Network Capability **Monitoring - Network Monitoring** - 360-Degree Network Visibility - Automated Network Discovery - Real-Time Monitoring **Management** - Performance Baseline - Data Visualization - Path Analysis **Analytics - Network Monitoring** - Predictive Performance Analytics - Packet & Flow Analysis **Security - Network Monitoring** - Encrypted Data Transmission - Zero Trust and Identity Management - Integrated Network Security **Network Performance - Network Monitoring** - Dynamic Network Optimization - Automated Tasks Routing **AI Automation - Network Monitoring** - Machine Learning-Based Anomaly Detection - Self-Healing Networks - Predictive Network Maintenance **Agentic AI - Network Monitoring** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top CANopen Alternatives - [NinjaOne](https://www.g2.com/products/ninjaone/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (4,259 reviews) - [TeamViewer](https://www.g2.com/products/teamviewer/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,791 reviews) - [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,231 reviews)