Patent ID: 8560162

Claim:
A monitoring device for monitoring systems of a vehicle, in which there are at least one of some systems having self-monitoring routines for self-monitoring and some systems having external monitoring routines for performing external monitoring of other systems which are not provided for the functions of their own systems or for self-monitoring, comprising: an activating arrangement to activate, when a malfunction or a fault is detected in at least one function assigned to a first system of the systems (ECPB), by self-monitoring routines of this first system (ECPB), a second system (EBS) by the one first system (ECPB) having the fault or the malfunction or by external monitoring routines of a third system monitoring this one first system (ECPB), wherein the activating arrangement is adapted to at least one of detect and localize the fault or the malfunction in the at least one function of the first system (ECPB) by at least one of actuators and sensors assigned to the second system (EBS), and activate an emergency operating program of the second system (EBS) as a replacement for the disrupted functioning of the first system.