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APM Terminals handles up to 50 million tons of cargo each year. Under the pressure of this huge volume of freight, Zeebrugge uses a machine called a "straddle loader," which, as its name suggests, can be stacked in up to four pallets, with operators sitting on top of it to see the whole picture. As the straddle carriers move around the terminal, it is difficult for the central management unit to know the status of each piece of equipment, including fuel consumption, fuel level, battery voltage values, how the straddle carriers are being loaded, and more importantly - where is it located? For APM to track the movement of the cross carriers, it needs to install a wireless system to communicate between the cross carriers and the office. The problem is that APM uses a CAN-based bus internally that cannot communicate with the Modbus-TCP-based monitoring system that sends the data to the office.