
SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 10/2025
Basic integrity, COTS and pre-existing equipment: do we need to square the circle?
This article explains how to deal with basic integrity, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products and existing systems. The requirements of the existing EN 50126 standard and the new version of EN 50129 are also compared and an overview is presented in a table. The relationship between COTS and existing systems, as well as systems with basic integrity, is also discussed.