Driving Innovation by Sonatus

In this episode of the Driving Innovation podcast, Siva Yoganathan, VP of Engineering at MOTER Technologies, discusses how edge AI and foundational models are transforming automotive insurance into real-time, contextual driving intelligence. He also highlights MOTER's partnership with Sonatus to streamline model deployment across diverse OEM platforms while improving privacy, processing speed, and cost efficiency.

In this podcast episode, Engineer for e-Planning, Coding and Cybersecurity Sarah Dorey of Nissan Technical Center Europe (NTCE) explains how NTCE is using Sonatus AI Technician and Collector AI to transition from manual, on-site vehicle validation to a remote, AI-driven workflow. This digital transformation has significantly boosted efficiency by allowing global teams to collaborate in real time and reducing root-cause investigation times from two weeks to just two days.

This episode of The Driving Innovation Podcast explores how in-vehicle edge AI is reshaping the automotive industry and introduces Sonatus AI Director, an end-to-end orchestration platform that makes large-scale AI deployment in vehicles practical and cost-effective.

Steve Stoddard, Product Manager for AI Products at Sonatus, explains how AI Director helps automakers optimize, deploy, and manage diverse AI models on today’s ECUs and vehicle hardware—enabling smarter, adaptive, and personalized driving experiences.

The discussion highlights Sonatus’ ecosystem partnerships, spanning silicon providers, cloud platforms, and AI model vendors, to accelerate a wide range of embedded AI features. Together, these collaborations mark a major step forward in bringing AI from concept to production, advancing the vision of truly intelligent, software-defined vehicles.

In this episode, Sonatus Product Manager Steve Stoddard and Head of Product Sanjay Khatri, discuss the opportunity and challenges of deploying in-vehicle edge AI beyond ADAS and AD to transform the vehicle driving and ownership experience. The topics discussed here are explained in detail in the Sonatus White Paper, Unlocking the Potential In-Vehicle Edge: The Role of SDV Technologies and Flexible E/E Architectures.  

This podcast delves into the revolutionary role of AI in the automotive industry, particularly through Sonatus's AI technician builder. Steve Stoddard, the product manager, highlights how AI enhances the vehicle ownership experience by addressing misunderstandings between drivers and technicians. The AI technician not only benefits vehicle owners but also streamlines service for technicians and OEM engineers, fostering customer loyalty. With access to real-time vehicle data, the AI technician can adapt and improve service policies, showcasing a significant transformation in how vehicles are maintained and experienced.

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.

This episode touches on key topics from Sonatus' eBook, "What OTA Update Solutions Must Deliver in the SDV Era". This eBook explores how OTA update solutions must evolve in this new era of software-defined vehicles.

This Driving Innovation podcast episode provides a summary of  ”Realizing Future-Proof Architectures for Software-Defined Vehicles”, a white paper from Wards Auto sponsored by Sonatus, which describes the lessons the automotive industry can learn from the transition of legacy hardware-centric data centers into modern software-defined application platforms. The white paper covers how the lessons can be applied to architect flexible foundations for vehicle E/E architectures to support rapid and continuous innovations.  

Download white paper: https://wa-resources.wardsauto.com/c/pubRD.mpl?secure=1&sr=pp&_t=pp:&qf=w_defa6601&ch=SonatusLink

In this episode Sonatus Head of Product, Sanjay Khatri, provides a preview of Sonatus’s recently published customer case study, “Maximizing the Value of Vehicle Data”.  We summarize the vehicle data collection challenges of one of the world’s largest automakers, and how they are using Sonatus Collector to overcome them to become data-driven across all facts of their business.  The benefits include an 80X improvement in their use of vehicle data, among other tangible outcomes.

Dr. John Heinlein, CMO at Sonatus, and Michael Garcia, Principal Product Solutions Architect at AWS, discuss and demonstrate the tight integration of Sonatus’ real-time data collection platform with AWS for dynamic data enhancement, enabling OEM and downstream services. Recorded at CES 2024 at the AWS Theater.