Connected things are one of society's big trends

The trend has, in recent years, had a significant impact in the automotive industry with, among other things, autonomous and connected vehicles. Autonomous and connected vehicles require a robust development of electronic and electrical components and functions throughout the chain from specification, development, implementation, and verification. This is described in the standard ISO26262, which sets requirements for a management system for functional safety, developing and testing road vehicles to be safe.

The industry constantly needs to develop more cost-effective and environmentally friendly processes, and autonomous solutions are increasingly seen as the next primary development direction. A future with fully self-driving vehicles could offer simplified and optimized infrastructure solutions, which would streamline traffic flow and increase safety.

But the development of electronic products places high demands on safety assurance and verification. Therefore, new standards and legal requirements have been developed in the industries concerned. Domains such as ``Functional Safety`` have become a critical and crucial part of safety systems or equipment, intending to contribute to the development of reliable systems and functional safety management.

Knightecs competence team within functional safety supports our customers to be compliant with the standard thru process development, safety concept development, education, and special investigations. We do that with a holistic approach we call compliance optimized. As the name implies, we support our customers in doing it as optimal as possible but making sure they develop safe vehicles.