Sonatus Foundation - Data Services

Evolve from signal-based to service-based data exchange

Foundation Data Services’ SOA Adapter helps accelerate the shift from rigid, signal-based communication to a more flexible, scalable service-oriented architecture (SoA). By translating legacy CAN signals into discoverable services, it simplifies cross-domain data exchange, supports modular software development, and improves compatibility with modern in-vehicle and cloud applications. This shift enables faster feature deployment, more efficient software updates, and better long-term scalability across vehicle platforms.

• Enhanced Integration: Easily integrate legacy systems with modern, service-oriented architectures.
• Improved Efficiency: Streamline data exchange, configuration, and management via intuitive cloud-based tools.
• Flexibility & Scalability: Support a broad range of protocols and adapt quickly across vehicle platforms and domains.
• Secure & Reliable:  Ensure data integrity, security, and reliable performance for safety-critical automotive functions.

Key Capabilities 

Unified Configuration Management

• Easily upload and deploy CAN-to-SoA mapping configurations directly from the Sonatus Command Center (SCC).
• Quickly distribute configurations to selected vehicle groups through an intuitive, cloud-based management system.

Protocol Flexibility

• Supports multiple standard communication protocols, including SOME/IP, Shared Memory, and DDS.
• Ensures broad compatibility across various automotive software environments and industry standards.

Dynamic Service Integration

• Converts legacy CAN signals into service topics, providing immediate updates or periodic data events.
• Allows modern software services to access up-to-date vehicle information when needed.
• Enables cloud or in-vehicle applications to send commands that seamlessly interact with legacy vehicle systems.

Real-Time Service Discovery

• Simplifies service discovery across vehicle domains, allowing seamless access to critical data sources.

Robust Security & Reliability

• Built-in access control, checksum validation, and encryption ensure secure, reliable data transfers.
• Error handling and ultra-low latency guarantee safe, dependable performance, even for critical automotive signals.

Scalable and High-Performance

• Handles intensive data flows efficiently without latency degradation.
• Scalable across multiple vehicle zones without compromising network performance. 

SoA Adapter bridges legacy and next-gen systems by translating CAN signals into modern services for secure, real-time data exchange. Its scalable, cloud-configurable design reduces integration complexity and accelerates the delivery of new vehicle features.

As the number of ECUs (Electronic Control Units) in vehicles increases, so does the amount of vehicle data that is generated. Since not all the data generated in connected vehicles can or should to be uploaded to the cloud, adequate local storage is critical. However, expanding individual ECU storage is costly, and hardware limitations restrict the amount of data they can store. Moreover, securing the storage of vehicle data distributed across multiple ECUs can be challenging.

Network Shared Storage (NSS) addresses these issues by allowing auto-makers to centralize connected car data storage and manage it dynamically from the cloud.

• Secure and cost-effective in-vehicle storage: Centrally managed storage and file sharing system is more secure and cost-effective than current distributed model
• Hardware and storage media-agnostic: Works across a wide variety of storage media types and formats, no special hardware or driver required
• Supports a wide array of use cases: Provides dynamically adjustable storage allocation for supporting diverse applications such as –

• • Dash cam footage and vehicle location for insurance claims
  • Diagnostics vehicle log data for troubleshooting and improvements
  • Vehicle-wide OTA update image repository

Key Features

• Flexible storage and access options, including network file system (NFS) and object store
• Thin provisioning and usage-based storage management
• Virtual partitions and file systems to adjust storage allocation
• Options to use higher compression for less frequently accessed vehicle data
• Automatic purging of aged vehicle data
• Centralized vehicle data protection with multi-level access control and encryption
• Flexible storage media options, including eMMC and NVMe
• Seamless cloud integration for real-time storage policy updates, health and activity monitoring, vehicle data synchronization and backup, and much more