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SOTIF

Keep your environment in check.


Upgrade Functional Safety Towards Autonomy

At exida, we help you master the Safety of the intended Functionality (SOTIF) for autonomous vehicles by addressing challenges from the ground up. Our experienced team will support you through concept definition, hazard analysis, and validation, ensuring your AI-driven features meet ISO 21448 requirements. We turn complex safety principles into clear, practical, actionable steps – measurable, traceable, and designed for real-world environments.

Your challenges - solved

Processes that fit your development

You know your product best.
We make safety fit your workflows – not the other way around.

Our engineers integrate SOTIF and Functional Safety principles directly into your development processes, reducing complexity and accelerating compliance.
Clear guidance, seamless integration, predictable outcomes.

Manage your Operational Design Domain

Rain, fog, highways, cities – the environment defines your system.

We help you structure your Operational Design Domain (ODD) according to industry standards, map environmental influences to system behavior, derive constraints, requirements, and safety mechanisms, and prepare for edge cases and real-world uncertainties.

Your system becomes robust, reliable, and truly ready for the real world.

Explainable statistics to understand system limitations

Autonomous systems must anticipate what comes next.

We connect quantitative risk assessment, Bayesian reasoning, and performance limits to give you explainable statistical insights, transparent safety arguments, early detection of potential triggers, and measurable evidence for ISO 21448

You gain clarity where systems face uncertainty.

Address the entire V-model
from requirements to testing

Whether you're starting a new autonomy program or scaling advanced systems, we meet you exactly where challenges begin. With deep experience across domains, teams, and development stages, we deliver the safety support your project needs: from structured analysis and proven templates to hands-on engineering, training, and certification. A dependable partner from concept to deployment.


Design your level of autonomy

Tie your Operational Design Domain to clear requirements and safe solutions

Every autonomy feature starts with a use case. Suddenly you face infrastructure constraints, weather variations, sensor limitations, and unpredictable actors.
We help you turn your ODD into actionable constraints, clear requirements, safety-relevant scenarios, and measurable acceptance criteria.

Complexity becomes manageable.
Compliance becomes achievable.

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Machine Learning safety

Bridge the gap between data, autonomy, and safety standards

Machine Learning evolves fast – but safety must keep pace.

We support you with ML model analysis & explainability, data pipeline structuring, alignment with ISO 8800, SOTIF, and automotive safety processes, risk-oriented model evaluation, and the integration of ML behavior into safety arguments.

Your ML innovations become not only cutting-edge – but certifiably safe.

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Scenarios and testing

Deliver a system that masters all relevant scenarios

Scenarios are not just situations – they are the backbone of SOTIF.

We help you identify relevant scenarios, classify hazardous vs. safe behaviors, prioritize what truly matters, derive coverage needs for testing, and build scenario-driven safety arguments.

Your product will meet real-world requirements – for you and for your clients.

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Common challenges when meeting an Operational Design Domain

What's relevant? Understanding the standards

The standards landscape is huge – from ISO/PAS 8800 to SOTIF and beyond.

We help you determine which standards matter for your product, how they impact your architecture, what evidence you need, and how to stay compliant without slowing down development.

Compliance becomes a strategic advantage.

Isn’t safety just documentation?

Spoiler: It’s not. Documentation alone won’t pass audits or real-world validation. Safety is engineering – structured reasoning, justified assumptions, and evidence that stands up under scrutiny.

We help you build systems that are defensible, explainable, traceable, and grounded in solid engineering

Not just documented – trusted.

Where are we? How your target environment shapes your system

Context is everything. A system that works in simulation may fail in real environments.

We help you analyze and adapt to
road infrastructure, weather conditions, traffic density, operational constraints, and edge-case environments

Your system becomes ready for where it’s going – not just where it’s tested.

Think Holistically

AI doesn’t play by the old rules.
Learning, uncertainty, and adaptation challenge traditional safety assumptions. We help you build robust safety arguments—rooted in architecture, backed by rigorous analysis, and aligned with ISO 26262 and ISO/PAS 8800.

Autonomous systems will always encounter unexpected situations.
We help you identify, model, and manage these unknowns — turning uncertainty into measurable, explainable safety.
Because true safety means being prepared for what cannot be predicted.

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We provide consulting, assessment, cybersecurity, alarm management, product testing and certification under a number of Functional Safety, Security and SW Quality standards, such as IEC 61508, IEC 61511, ISO 26262, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI), ASPICE


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