RUG project team presents successful final result of SARC project during Industry Day

On 19 June 2026, the RUG project team presented the successful final result of the SARC project “Service Monitor: Background Service Wrapper & Dashboard” during the RUG Industry Day. RUG stands for the University of Groningen. From SARC, Mark Visser and Bastiaan Veelo were involved in the project. The project investigated how several specific existing stand-alone SARC applications can be converted into robust Windows Services.

These applications should be able to start automatically with Windows and therefore continue running reliably in the background, even when no user is logged in. This is particularly important for use on board vessels and in other 24/7 environments, where continuity and reliability are essential.

In this project, particular care was taken to use a clear and reusable software structure, designed in such a way that multiple runtimes or applications can be implemented as Windows Services. This includes the required runtime settings, logging, status information, and recovery after failures.

The final result is valuable and practically useful for SARC. At the same time, the project has contributed to further expanding SARC’s knowledge of Windows Services, runtime configuration, and reusable service architecture.

The collaboration with the University of Groningen provided a valuable opportunity to apply academic knowledge in software architecture, Windows Services, and systems programming to a practical industrial challenge.

Photo: the RUG project team during the poster presentation at the RUG Industry Day, together with SARC.
From left to right: Aristotelis Christoforides, Davids Keziks, Bastiaan Veelo (SARC), Botond Szihalmi and Avery Kozak. Not pictured: Mark Visser (SARC).