The road safety targets set by the European Commission Transport Policy can only be reached through an integrated approach to vehicle safety systems, i.e. the combination of active and passive safety systems over vehicle domains or networks.
From a technical point of view today’s safety systems are mostly stand alone systems with a limited degree of interdependency. These systems must be integrated - combined with upcoming enhanced telematics services - into a complete network of so-called Integrated Safety Systems.
For the realization of such Integrated Safety Systems, powerful and highly dependable in-vehicle electronic architecture and appropriate development support are necessary. These elements must be standardized to achieve an improvement in system quality with shorter development times and lower system costs. The goal of the EASIS project is to define and develop these enabling technologies.
