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Commercial Vehicles

Reduce Vehicle Cost and Expand Revenue Opportunities

Sonatus delivers software components for commercial vehicles to evolve into flexible, upgradable, and intelligent platforms.

For OEMs

Reduce Cost

Build a flexible E/E architecture that supports diverse vehicle requirements and deliver tailored features efficiently.

Expand Revenue

Boost after-sales revenue with a range of digital services and business applications to enhance transportation and logistics operations.

For Fleet Customers

Increase Efficiency

Optimize fleet operations  with vital vehicle data and insights for improved fuel savings, asset utilization, and predictive maintenance.

Improve Compliance

Automate driving data logging for regulatory compliance and improve safe driving practices.

Commercial Overview

Foundation
Modular SDV architecture decoupling software and hardware for ultimate flexibility
  • Build a flexible E/E architecture that decouples SW and HW for faster innovation.
  • Achieve a scalable platform for diverse commercial vehicle configurations.
  • Enhance feature extensibility with a service-oriented architecture.
Reduce Cost

Lower vehicle BOM costs by consolidating electronic control units (ECUs), minimizing wiring, and implementing simplified E/E architectures that span traditional haulage to vocational segments.

Collector AI
Gather high-value vehicle data for enabling fine-grained diagnostics and performance insights
  • Dynamically manage vehicle data through fine-grained and lightweight policies.
  • Define triggers and events to capture precise data across high-level protocols like J1939.
  • Harness the power of AI and natural language to simplify data collection.
Expand Revenue

Enable a myriad of services for commercial vehicles, including function validation, feature planning, and predictive maintenance, to detect early signs of component failure and avoid costly downtime.

Automator AI
Enables real-time rule creation and automation across vehicle systems
  • Build sophisticated automation workflows based on vehicle type, ECU events, or specific operational scenarios.
  • Quickly create in-vehicle if-this-then-that workflows and logic using an intuitive GenAI-powered interface.
  • Orchestrate vehicle-wide actions across CAN, Ethernet, and J1939 ECUs.
Increase Efficiency

Automate vehicle functions like diagnostic routines and in-cab personalization, or dynamically optimize engine fuel maps based on load weight, terrain, traffic conditions, or driving behavior.

Updater
Securely manages and deploys xOTA updates at scale with minimal vehicle downtime
  • Conduct cloud-based dry runs to predict campaign performance, reduce costs, and improve success rates.
  • Manage vehicle-wide firmware, application, container, variant coding, and policy updates from a single interface.
Improve Compliance

Enable fleet operational efficiency with continuously optimized and up-to-date systems, including timely updates to engine control software to meet emissions standards such as CARB Compliance and the EU’s CO2 standard.

Customer Success Story

How Sonatus enables commercial vehicles with a software-defined data platform

Hyundai has deployed Sonatus software into its Xcient line of hydrogen fuel-cell heavy-duty trucks.

Discover how Hyundai partnered with Sonatus to create a software-defined infrastructure for the efficient development of next-gen commercial vehicles and was able to:

  • Launch the XCIENT Fuel Cell Truck and ELEC CITY Bus on time without system redesigns.
  • Reduce design time and cost by reusing network architecture across vehicle lines.
  • Enable advanced diagnostics, maintenance, and connected services.
Learn More
White Paper

The Future of Commercial Vehicles is Software-Defined

Download this White Paper to learn how OEMs can leverage Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) technologies to:

  • Meet unique customer segment requirements
  • Service the operational needs of diverse fleet types
  • Enable seamless integration of aftermarket fittings
Download the white paper

Commercial Vehicle Use Cases

Deliver new commercial vehicle applications and fleet services

Sonatus empowers commercial vehicle manufacturers to meet the growing demands of diverse transportation and mobility use cases. Our advanced solutions drive the development of more efficient, maintainable, and adaptable vehicles, equipped with connected fleet services that enhance operational efficiency.

Explore our use cases to learn how Sonatus is transforming commercial fleets, making them easier to manage, maintain, and optimize for today’s dynamic transportation needs.

Post Sales

Streamline Commercial Vehicle Data Collection with Generative AI

For commercial vehicle OEMs, enabling the collection of vehicle data access is critical for supporting their vehicle platforms throughout their lifecycle. Additionally, robust data collection policies to help fleets are essential for optimizing uptime and minimizing maintenance costs.

Post Sales

Optimize Fuel Efficiency with Dynamic Fuel Maps

Managing fuel efficiency is essential for commercial fleets. Historically, refining engine calibration, such as optimizing fuel maps, required extensive time and specialized knowledge from powertrain engineers.

Design and Engineering

Serve commercial vehicle segments with common platforms

The rise in urbanization, the growth of e-commerce, and the shift towards sustainable and efficient mobility solutions are fueling a surge in demand for commercial vehicles of all types.

Value-Added Services

Boost driver safety and retention

The new generation of technology-laden commercial vehicles present OEMs with an opportunity to provide advanced fleet management and telematics capabilities that can address the urgent need for improved driver safety and working conditions.

Value-Added Services

Enable diverse fleet management applications

Fleet services represent a tremendous opportunity to add a significant amount of revenue and profits to commercial vehicle manufacturers’ bottom line.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Sonatus solutions are designed to support commercial vehicle protocols like J1939, along with providing seamless interoperability between CAN and Ethernet networks. Our software-defined vehicle platform ensures compatibility with the unique needs of commercial fleets, including heavy-duty trucks and specialty vehicles.
Sonatus provides a robust software-defined vehicle infrastructure that transforms traditional commercial vehicles into flexible, upgradable, and intelligent platforms. With vehicle-to-cloud data orchestration, lightweight data collection policy creation, a rich array of vehicle function automation, and xOTA updates, commercial vehicle OEMs can enable improved uptime, reduce costs, and enhance operational efficiency for their fleet customers.
By integrating Sonatus software, commercial vehicle operators gain, flexible in-vehicle network management, real-time data collection and processing, SOTA and FOTA software updates, and predictive maintenance capabilities. These benefits reduce TCO and future-proof commercial vehicles for a variety of use cases.
No, Sonatus is not a telematics provider. One of our featured products, Collector AI, enables dynamic, lightweight policy creation, making the data collection process more cost-effective and time-efficient. More importantly, Sonatus empowers OEMs, fleets, and telematics providers to harness advanced software-defined vehicle (SDV) capabilities. While traditional telematics focuses on fixed data collection and basic vehicle tracking, Sonatus offers a dynamic range of software-defined products, including Foundation, Automator AI, and Updater.

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Resources

The Future of Commercial Vehicles is Software-Defined

The white paper from Sonatus titled “The Future of Commercial Vehicles is Software-Defined” explores the opportunities and challenges for commercial vehicle manufacturers amidst the robust growth in transportation and mobility services. This podcast summarizes the paper, including the key ingredients vehicle makers must embrace to succeed.
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