Technical Paper
Next Generation of Fail-Safe Architectures and Components
2009-04-20
2009-01-0737
To improve road safety the public sector is actively supporting this effort with investment in required infrastructure, enforcement in the road safety rules, and improved deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). With the development of more powerful processors, communication and sensor technologies, tools are now available to enable the industry players to meet the aforementioned challenges. The paper will describe work undertaken within the European MEDEA+ framework in the project SAPECS (Secured Architecture & Protocols for Enhanced Car Safety). The consortium of companies that worked within SAPECS broke down the requirements emerging from these complex automotive architectures into component specifications, and partitioning of software/hardware to optimise costs.