Drive continuous innovation with vehicle data collection

Collector provides secure connection to public cloud providers or private clouds from car companies, ensuring data from sensors, cameras, and other vehicle systems are protected by modern standards to ensure privacy and security. Connecting cars to the internet is critical to deliver cars with modern connected services, but that process needs to be secure.

Sonatus Collector is compliant with privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and other standards in the US such as the California Consumer Privacy Act. Car companies typically ask drivers of modern cars to accept privacy policies based on their preferences and privacy laws in their geography. Collector enables car companies to customize collection of personal information based on the driver’s selections as OEMs offer data products like connected services, ensuring the data collection is tailored to a driver’s wishes. Most drivers choose a mixture of privacy settings and Sonatus collector can ensure companies can satisfy this diverse need for data privacy of personal data.

Ensuring privacy is paramount, and Collector only gathers data points approved by the driver. Whether location, vehicle performance, sensor data, or other vehicle data, data handling complies with a vehicle owner’s individual preferences. In fact, the ability to protect all this data in a customized fashion is a key benefit that a car company can use to reassure car buyers of their data privacy. Drivers and companies may also choose to enable aggregated personal data that removes their most sensitive personal information while still enabling automotive innovation and enabling solutions for analyzing data.

Data is used in modern vehicles for many benefits. Autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are growing consumers of vehicle data to improve safety, avoid driver fatigue through data from sensors and cameras. In fact, some ADAS safety features are required in new vehicles, enabling car manufacturers to make cars safer. Sonatus Collector can support the development and tuning of ADAS systems using superior data from multiple sensors in the vehicle.

Sonatus is not a data broker, instead it enables car manufacturers to provide capabilities and services in their cars. The car manufacturer and the drivers have full control over the data they collect, consistent with the privacy policies and privacy laws that give drivers and consumers confidence in how the companies will use their personal data. Also unlike traditional telematics solutions, Sonatus Collector enables companies to dynamically adapt the types of data collected from sensors, configure the data resolution, capture frequency, and decide if the car’s computers should process the data locally or upload it to the cloud.

Sonatus Collector supports data from every type of vehicle from cars, light trucks, cargo vehicles, transportation and more. As every vehicle is becoming connected to the internet, vehicles create opportunities for companies to improve every aspect of vehicle operation spanning fuel efficiency, quality, safety, fleet management, and sustainability compared to others that lack rich data.