Bus Systems: Notes

The vehicle electrical architecture of the MINI has been designed to exploit the full potential of its technological advances. Rather than having a control unit dedicated to its system and unaware of the operation of other systems, the systems around the MINI are all linked together.

The control units are linked to each other via bus-systems, allowing communication and exchange of information. Harness bulk and complexity is kept to a minimum using this method to relay information to and from the different systems. This method used by MINI is called multiplexing.