The SMICT project develops simple to use methods and criteria leading to higher trustworthiness and safety for onboard software-intensive systems, in particular systems affecting essential functions such as propulsion and steering. This is important, as the amount of functionality and value that is created by software is increasing.

The SMICT project is executed in partnership with yards and equipment suppliers. It focuses on three areas; challenges related to use of COTS and SOUP, software redundancy vs. independence and emergency handling.

Two of the most important factors for both yards and equipment suppliers are ‘time to market’ and ‘cost of development’. In the SMICT project we therefore emphasize the importance of developing methods which allow for development of more trustworthy and safe software-intensive systems in a cost and time efficient way.

Project duration is from mid 2006 till end of 2007.