Sonatus Vehicle Platform
Vehicle Software Platform for Software Defined Vehicles
Drive automotive industry innovation in a single vehicle software platform. Empower vehicle manufacturers to deliver dynamic software defined vehicle architectures and applications. Achieve improvements in vehicle quality, vehicle performance, power, reliability and user interfaces throughout the lifecycle of cars, trucks, and vehicles of all kinds.
Sonatus AI Technician
Vehicle-specific AI agents for intuitive, real-time diagnostics and guided maintenance—delivering context-aware responses, faster resolution, and ongoing vehicle improvements.
- Provide instant, VIN-specific answers to vehicle owners through natural language chatbots
- Leverage Collector AI for dynamic, event-driven access to real-time diagnostic data
- Utilize Automator AI to trigger in-vehicle actions and close the loop on repairs
- Run cloud-based LLMs for deep knowledge access, or optimized in-vehicle SLMs for offline responsiveness
- Fuse OEM manuals, service documentation, and fleet-wide insights with RAG for accurate, context-rich guidance
Sonatus Collector AI
Collect precise vehicle data in real time with an easy-to-use AI-powered user interface to maximize its value for product improvements and value-added services.
- Collect vehicle-wide data dynamically without code changes or OTA updates
- Maximize data-driven innovation by using GenAI and natural language to simplify data collection
- Use event-triggered policies to collect precise data anytime in the vehicle lifecycle
- Support diverse use cases and remove data silos across organizations
- Fine-tune the collection, storage, and transmission of data for cost efficiency
Sonatus AI Director
End-to-end toolchain for scaling in-vehicle edge AI—streamlining model training to deployment, integrating with vehicle data, and running in isolated runtimes with cloud-based monitoring.
- Train, validate, optimize, deploy, and monitor AI models across diverse vehicle ECUs
- Reduce fragmented MLOps and manual integrations to speed innovation and cut costs.
- Run models in isolated, compute-aware runtimes with real-time telemetry and performance insights
- Leverage Collector AI and Automator AI for model data inputs and automated actions
Sonatus Automator AI
Unique no-code, AI-enabled software orchestration tool delivers fast and continuous vehicle innovation in software-defined features, automated diagnostics, and seamless integration of new capabilities.
- Add new vehicle capabilities at any time in the vehicle lifecycle
- Deploy software orchestration workflows to automate an extensive array of vehicle functions
- Utilize GenAI and natural language to define new automation policies in minutes
- Leverage an extensive set of triggers and actions in simple to sophisticated workflows
- Automate end-of-line testing, perform smart diagnostics, personalize vehicle settings, and more
- Ensure safety and security with ASIL-B safety interlock module and role-based access control
Sonatus Updater
Securely manage all vehicle software updates with predictability and end-to-end traceability across all vehicle systems
- Empower software engineers to update all vehicle software from a single-pane-of-glass
- Conduct dry runs to predict campaign cost and resolve conflicts to ensure success
- Apply optimal delta calculations on updates to minimize package payload and costs
- Achieve end-to-end traceability of update campaigns to resolve issues faster
- Update securely with UN R155/R156 compliance and Role-Based Access Controls
Sonatus Foundation
Deliver agile, future-proof E/E architectures that are easily updated and customized across platforms and customer segments while optimizing cost efficiency.
- Standardize switch control across vendors to simplify development and avoid hardware lock-in
- Enable real-time, adaptive network control with advanced features and OTA-ready orchestration
- Build low-latency, scalable networks with advanced QoS for next-gen workloads
- Gain deep network visibility and fast diagnostics to ensure robust performance
- Ensure reliable performance and secure, fault-tolerant updates across the vehicle lifecycle
- Protect networks with comprehensive security, standards compliance, and intrusion detection
Frequently asked questions
No one company in the automotive industry can deliver all the technology needed to achieve a software-defined vehicle. Software complexity is growing and strategic partnerships are beneficial to offer vehicle developers accelerated time to market. Our vehicle software platform consists of both in-vehicle software and cloud-based services working tightly together to solve key challenges for vehicle software stacks. This also enables automakers to optimize their developers time to focus on unique differentiating functionality for their cars, trucks, and every type of vehicle. It also enables rapid innovation without software development to allow rapid innovation in software defined vehicles.
The Sonatus Vehicle Platform provides software to interact with hardware across the entire vehicle. Whether for data collection, automation, or managing OTA updates, this single platform provides critical features that speed development for automakers, enabling faster integration and prototyping. Compared to other platforms which only focus on infotainment or “head unit” optimization, this solution can work across the vehicle.
The platform also enables the automotive industry to streamline cloud connectivity for to ensure every system they develop can be monitored effectively. Components can be tested with remote diagnostics to ensure the system is working correctly. In addition, components can be tuned and updated to improve performance, power, and efficiency while ensuring safety.
Sonatus has a proven track record of working with automakers and their unique vehicle architectures. The development of software defined vehicles does not need to redesign every vehicle system to achieve significant progress. Sonatus meets our OEM and Tier-1 partners wherever they are in their design cycle, whether they are early in developing their E/E architecture of their vehicles or further along and closer to production. In either case, the products in the Sonatus Vehicle Platform can enable a wide range of important innovation.
Software defined vehicles offer many benefits across a range of vehicle models. Vehicle safety systems like autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) require increased vehicle software and need to achieve ongoing improvements and new features over time. Our vehicle software platform can offer accelerated development and the ability to tune safety systems through continuous integration. This benefits specific functions like ADAS, but also many other vehicle systems and services. For all these use cases, Sonatus products reduce the software development burden and reducing time consuming validation of the rapidly transforming use cases demanded of software defined vehicles. Most of the platform enables console-based configurations without asking developers to code, validate and deploy software to achieve new functionality.
No, in fact many of the needs of automotive software improve the handling of the many other hardware systems across the vehicle besides infotainment. Sonatus Foundation supports the development of vehicle hardware architectures, data management, connectivity to the cloud, the ability to manage applications, and integration and management of configurable vehicle networks. Sonatus Collector enables developers to focus on high quality data and support for all vehicle components. Sonatus Automator and Sonatus Updater enables developing new features, deploying enhanced capabilities, and integrating new functionality after shipment. Sonatus Guard provides security features that work with technology providers like cybersecurity threat partners to protect automakers cars and trucks from security threats, especially threats to the network arising from increased vehicle connectivity.
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