The CLEARSY Safety Platform: 5 Years of Research, Development and Deployment

The CLEARSY Safety Platform (CSSP) was designed to ease the development of safety critical systems and to reduce the overall costs (development, deployment, and certification) under the pressure of the worldwide market. A smart combination of hardware features (double processor) and formal method (B method and code generators) was used to produce a SIL4-ready platform where safety principles are built-in and cannot be altered by the developer. Summarizing a 5-year return of experience in the effective application in the railways, this article explains how this approach is a game-changer and tries to anticipate the future of this platform for safety critical systems. In particular, the education of future engineers and the seamless integration in existing engineering processes with the support of Domain Specific Languages are key topics for a successful deployment in other domains. DSL like Robosim to program mobile robots and relay circuits to design railway signalling systems are connected to the platform.