System for controlling participants in a bus network

摘要

The system has a processing unit (8) that is connected with bus-linked subscribers (ID1-IDn) by data bus (4), to perform controlling or polling of bus subscribers. A configuration element (1) is configured to send identifier through data bus. The processing unit is configured to recognize configuration element based on received identifier, so as to identify or configure the placeholder of replaced subscriber. Independent claims are included for the following: (1) configuration element; and (2) method for controlling bus-linked subscribers.