Overview

Sonatus Automator is a cloud + in-vehicle automation platform that lets OEMs define, deploy, and manage lightweight automation policies (recipes) to create new vehicle functions, accelerate testing and diagnostics, and deliver feature updates without full software redevelopment. It supports role-based access control, a console and APIs for policy creation, targeted fleet deployments, and safety-certified safety interlocks for critical functions — enabling faster time-to-market and continuous vehicle innovation.

Features and Capabilities

• Policy-based Automation: Automator uses compact, kilobyte-scale automation policies (recipes) that define triggers, conditions, and actions so OEMs can create vehicle features without rebuilding firmware.
• Cloud Console & APIs: Intuitive cloud console for authoring policies plus a full set of APIs for CI/CD, toolchain integration, and third-party systems enables programmatic workflow creation and management.
• Targeted Fleet Deployment: Deploy policies to single vehicles or segmented fleets using rich filters (vehicle attributes, region, software baseline) to control rollout and minimize risk.
• Role-Based Access & Governance: Fine-grained RBAC and operational controls protect safety-critical capabilities, ensuring only authorized engineers or teams can publish or activate automations.
• Lightweight In-Vehicle Runtime: A compact runtime runs policies on vehicle edge compute with minimal footprint, enabling instant activation and low bandwidth usage.
• Safety Interlock & Functional Safety: An Automator Safety Interlock (ASI) provides functional-safety controls; Sonatus has taken the ASI through ISO 26262 certification work (ASIL-D capability for the safety module).
• Testing & Diagnostics Automation: Automator streamlines vehicle test procedures and diagnostic workflows by automating sequences and collecting telemetry for validation and root-cause analysis.
• Integrations & Extensibility: Designed to integrate with Sonatus Vehicle Platform components (Collector, Updater, AI Director) and external cloud services for data ingestion, OTA, and analytics.
• Security & Compliance: Built with industry security practices for in-vehicle and cloud communications, plus controls to ensure safe rollouts and regulatory readiness for automotive deployments.
• Use Cases — Immediate Innovation: Examples include enabling feature prototypes in production vehicles, remote diagnostics sequences, personalized vehicle behaviors, and rapid recall/patch workflows without full ECU software replacements.