EN 50128

Security Architecture for protecting Safety-critical Railway Infrastructure

6 July 2021 / Railway, Safety, Security / By

Digitization, connectivity, and use of commercial-off-the-shelf technologies has reached Safety-critical areas such as the Railway sector. This creates new opportunities for attacks and makes it necessary to integrate IT Security measures into Railway command and control systems (CCS). However, the integration of Security mechanisms into a system certified according to the Railway Safety standard EN …

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How to Design Safety-Critical Embedded Software for Autonomous Trains

23 April 2021 / Railway, Safety, Security / By

As trains become more autonomous in nature, embedded software acts as a control center — monitoring conditions in real time, processing data and activating critical functions like braking and acceleration. Train designs are also becoming more sophisticated, incorporating more embedded systems and control software, making the job of engineering incredibly complex. Digital components must be …

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InnoTrans 2018

SYSGO presenting Virtualization in Transportation @ InnoTrans 2018

12 July 2021 / Railway / By

SYSGO recently attended the InnoTrans in Berlin – the leading international trade fair for transport technology taking place every other year. At the booth of Kontron the following highlights were presented: Kontron showing IoT and Embedded Systems for Smart and Secure Transportation Technology SYSGO’s PikeOS® as one of the foundations for all kinds of Embedded …

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[WHITEPAPER] Safety Certification for unsafe COTS Platforms

12 July 2021 / Railway / By

Today we would like to make you aware of our brand-new white paper “Safety Certification for unsafe COTS Platforms” that was published in our latest newsletter. The paper describes the aspects that need to be considered, when using complex (COTS) hardware in a safety system for railway applications. Click HERE to download the whitepaper for …

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Safety certification presented at safe.tech

12 July 2021 / Automotive, Industrial Automation, Railway, Safety / By

Hello Rail-Engineers, I attended the safe.tech conference in Munich this week. The focus of the conference is on railway, automotive and industrial automation. For me as an engineer working with the EN 50128 (Software) and EN 50129 (Hardware) standards, it is interesting to see, that a certified safety related electronic system is not the center …

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