In a live recording from the COVESA meeting in Berlin, Steve Crumb, COVESA's executive director, discusses enhancing connected vehicle value through collaboration and innovation with John Heinlein, Ph.D, Sonatus's CMO. He emphasizes the Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS) for simplifying data communication among OEMs, benefiting data users. Despite challenges for OEMs transitioning from legacy systems, VSS is advantageous. Steve notes growing fleet interest in VSS, and COVESA's efforts to streamline app deployment across OEMs.

In this episode, recorded live at the Sonatus booth at CES2025, Tomm Clarke, EV Product Manager from Parkopedia talks with host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer from Sonatus.  Parkopedia works with over 30 OEMs for in-car payments as well as improving the experience for EV-charging ranging from more authoritative charger information, easier payments and more. 

In this episode, filmed live at the Sonatus booth at CES2025, Prashant Gulati, CEO of SDVerse, talks with host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer from Sonatus about the SDVerse vehicle software marketplace. Prashant explains the goals of SDVerse, its member companies, and explains their business model. He shares some success stories about how this marketplace is gaining traction.

Martin Krantz, CEO and Co-founder of Smart Eye talks with host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer of Sonatus about their incredible occupant monitoring system. Martin explains how their technology has evolved with new computational capabilities and the growth of AI to discern distraction, fatigue, intoxication, but in the future mood, stress and intent. Recorded live at CES 2025 in the Sonatus booth.

Francis Chow, VP & GM, In-Vehicle Operating System and Edge, Red Hat speaks with host John Heinlein Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer, Sonatus about the many changes in software-defined vehicles, with a particular focus on vehicle operating systems. The conversation explains Red Hat’s journey towards a safety-certified Linux, and shares many of the opportunities SDV can bring to the entire vehicle value chain and consumers. Recorded live in Las Vegas at CES 2025 in the Sonatus booth.

James Roberts, President of IOT and Analytics and Ronaldo Castillo, Software Engineering Manager, both of LHP, talk with host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer of Sonatus. A special focus of this episode is functional safety and safety certification. Sonatus recently achieved ISO26262 ASIL-D functional safety rating for our Automator Safety Interlock module, which was developed in collaboration with LHP. Recorded live at the Sonatus booth at CES 2025.

Links referenced in this episode:
Sonatus Automator AI Safety Module Completes Functional Safety Certification Journey
https://www.sonatus.com/blog/sonatus-automator-ai-safety-module-completes-functional-safety-certification-journey/

Dr. Moritz Neukirchner, Sr. Director Strategic Product Management, SDV, Elektrobit, joins host Dr. John Heinlein, Chief Marketing Officer from Sonatus, to discuss his valuable perspective on the shift to software-defined vehicles. Moritz is well-known in the automotive industry and explains critical technical infrastructure, including how Elektrobit is advancing Linux for vehicles, how SDV suits commercial vehicles, prototyping, CI/CD, and more. Moritz also explains his SDV maturity framework and how it introduces a common nomenclature for the shift to SDV. Filmed live at the Sonatus booth at CES 2025.

Links referenced in this episode:
Moritz’s SDV maturity level framework https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sdv-yet-dr-moritz-neukirchner-uuyxf/

Recorded live at the Sonatus booth at CES 2025, Collin Shaw, President, MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers spoke with host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer from Sonatus about the important opportunities and challenges that software offers to vehicle manufacturers spanning passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles and more.  MEMA represents about 500 original equipment manufacturers, so Collin brings incredible perspective from across the industry, don’t miss it! 

In this episode of The Garage we talk with Rich Nass, famed journalist who is Executive Vice President with Open Systems Media following his long career at storied electronics periodicals. Rich talks with John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer at Sonatus and shares his perspective from talking with leaders across the industry about vehicle innovation ranging from architecture, software, safety, regulations, AI and much more.

In this episode, Vidya Rajagopalan, Senior Vice President of Electrical Hardware Engineering at Rivian joins host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer from Sonatus to discuss the electrical and software architecture for Rivian vehicles ranging from the R1, the R1 second generation, and the newly announced R2. This conversation covers topics including domain architecture vs zonal architecture, decisions around high performance ECU’s, vehicle networking, sustainability, ADAS/autonomous driving, Over the air updates (OTA), and much more!