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A focused course, tailored for you

The Connected Motorcycle Infotainment Staff Engineer Playbook

Own the head-unit, the rider app, the OTA pipeline, and the cellular telematics stack as one product, with the safety and type-approval evidence the regulators ask for.

You are the staff engineer on a touring-bike infotainment and connectivity stack. The head-unit, the rider app, and the telematics gateway each have their own supplier and their own release calendar, but the rider sees one screen and the regulator sees one vehicle.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

The infotainment and connectivity stack on a modern touring motorcycle is three loosely-coupled systems pretending to be one. An Android Automotive head-unit from one supplier, a rider companion phone app from a second team, and a cellular telematics gateway from a third. Each has its own release train, its own bug backlog, its own over-the-air pipeline, and its own security posture. The staff engineer is the only role that sees the whole product. When the rider complains that turn-by-turn dropped at a state line, the answer might be the head-unit map cache, the phone app's BLE handover, the telematics SIM profile, or the carrier roaming agreement, and figuring out which is a week of triage every time. Add UNECE R155 cybersecurity type approval, ISO 21434 evidence requirements across all three suppliers, FCC and CE radio certifications on the head-unit and the gateway, the model-year freeze that locks software before the line builds, and a dealer network that has to diagnose connectivity faults in a single service bay visit, and the staff engineer's calendar is gone before product roadmap conversations start. This course is the shape of that work, laid out as a buildable playbook.

What you walk away with

Run the head-unit, the rider app, and the telematics gateway as one release train with one signed-OTA pipeline rather than three uncoordinated supplier releases.
Produce the ISO 21434 cybersecurity engineering evidence and the UNECE R155 type-approval artefacts as a by-product of the build, not as a separate compliance project that interrupts the model-year freeze.
Carry FCC, CE, and equivalent radio certifications across the head-unit and the telematics gateway without re-certifying every minor firmware bump.
Write the dealer-side diagnostic story so a service technician can resolve a connectivity complaint in one bay visit with the documented decision tree, not a swap-the-head-unit reflex.
Hold the model-year freeze without sacrificing the OTA cadence after launch, by separating safety-relevant updates from feature updates in the release governance.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The staff engineer's view of the connected motorcycle product

The rider sees one experience. Underneath it sits three suppliers, three release trains, and three bug trackers. This module lays out the architecture as the staff engineer must hold it, names which interfaces are contractually owned by which supplier, names the integration points that fall silently to you, and shows where the rider-facing claims in the owner's manual cross those boundaries.

Module 2. Owning the head-unit Android Automotive image as a product

An Android Automotive head-unit arrives as a BSP and a reference image, not as a product. The module covers taking ownership of the image as your release artefact: the OEM customisation layer, the navigation and media partner SDKs, the locked-down package set, the signed boot chain, and the supplier contract clauses that put CVE response timelines on the underlying AOSP base without re-negotiation each model year.

Module 3. The rider companion phone app as the third half of the head-unit

The rider app on iOS and Android is the part of the head-unit that ships outside your release train and your security perimeter. The module covers defining the app and head-unit pair as one product: the Bluetooth and BLE pairing flow, the mount and dismount handover, the offline map sync that survives cellular dead zones, and the App Store review cycle that the dealer launch calendar depends on.

Module 4. The cellular telematics gateway and the carrier story

The on-bike modem and the eUICC underneath it are where hardware, radio approvals, and a multi-carrier business deal collide. The module covers modem and antenna design for the bike's RF environment, eUICC profiling for global roaming, the carrier clauses that decide what happens at a state line or border, and the diagnostic counters the gateway must expose so head-unit and cloud agree on connectivity health.

Module 5. One signed-OTA pipeline across head-unit, app, and gateway

Three independent OTA pipelines is the default and the wrong answer. The module unifies the story under one signing root, one staged rollout policy, one rollback story, and one rider-visible update screen. It covers the cryptographic key hierarchy, differential updates on bandwidth-constrained cellular, fleet rollout groupings, the rollback decision tree, and the rider-consent and dealer-managed update modes regulators expect.

Module 6. ISO 21434 cybersecurity engineering as a by-product of the build

ISO 21434 is workable if you generate the evidence as the work happens. The module covers the TARA done once at architecture and refreshed at every interface change, cybersecurity goals traceable to specific components, the supplier cybersecurity interface agreements with the head-unit and telematics vendors, and the incident response playbook the SOC and dealer service share. Output is an evidence file the type-approval auditor reads.

Module 7. UNECE R155 type approval and the CSMS your team has to live with

R155 makes the cybersecurity management system a type-approval prerequisite in every regulated market. The module covers a CSMS scope that survives an audit without consuming a quarter of staff-engineer calendar: supplier flow-down clauses, the evidence inventory mapped to the dossier, the change-impact assessment that decides when an update triggers re-approval, and the post-production monitoring story R155 expects.

Module 8. FCC, CE, and radio certifications without re-certifying every firmware bump

Head-unit Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the cellular modem, keyless entry RF, and tyre pressure sensors are each intentional radiators under FCC Part 15, CE RED, and equivalents. The module covers structuring the approvals so a minor firmware update does not invalidate them: modular certifications, antenna and placement test reports, software-defined limits locked in firmware, and the change-control register that proves shipping firmware matches the certification.

Module 9. Holding the model-year freeze without killing post-launch OTA

The model-year freeze is a manufacturing reality. A frozen stack that ships and never updates is unacceptable to a rider who paid for a connected bike. The module walks the governance that separates safety-relevant updates from feature and content updates, the post-job-one release cadence that survives the next model-year cycle, and the dealer coordination so a bike in for unrelated service gets the right software state.

Module 10. The dealer-side diagnostic story for connectivity faults

Dealer service technicians convert a rider's connectivity complaint into a closed warranty case. The module covers the diagnostic decision tree they need: which logs the head-unit exposes, which the gateway exposes, which require a paired rider-app capture, the swap-versus-investigate rules that stop the swap-the-head-unit reflex, and the warranty coding scheme that lets quality engineering see real failure rates inside a 30-minute service appointment.

Module 11. Briefing programme management, supplier quality, and homologation

Three audiences need the same connected-stack story in three vocabularies. The module covers the programme-management briefing tied to milestones and gate reviews, the supplier-quality briefing tied to PPAP and process audits with the head-unit and telematics vendors, the homologation briefing tied to type-approval dossiers and technical service evidence, and the executive one-pager that summarises connected-product readiness. Templates included for each.

Module 12. The 90-day plan to put the playbook on your programme

Module 12 is the implementation map. The first 30 days inventory the supplier contracts, the open R155 and ISO 21434 evidence gaps, the carrier and certification posture, and the dealer diagnostic state. Days 31-60 stand up the unified OTA plan, the cybersecurity evidence repository, and the dealer decision tree on a single subsystem. Days 61-90 extend the pattern across the full stack and brief programme leadership.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

You are between a head-unit supplier release and the model-year line freeze and the integrations are not converging.

An R155 type-approval audit window is on the calendar and the cybersecurity evidence lives across three suppliers and is not assembled.

Dealer service tickets are showing connectivity-fault swap rates that suggest the diagnostic decision tree is not being followed or does not exist.

An OTA campaign is being planned across head-unit, app, and gateway, and the team is treating it as three separate releases.

What you get with this course

Twelve written modules with the worked examples for each.
Templates for the cybersecurity interface agreement with head-unit and telematics suppliers, the OTA staged rollout policy, the dealer diagnostic decision tree, and the R155 change-impact assessment.
The hand-built implementation playbook tuned to your model-year cadence, your supplier mix, and your dealer network footprint.
30-day refund if the playbook does not fit your programme.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Within 24 hours of purchase, your account in the Art of Service learning environment is provisioned with all twelve modules available.

Within the same 24-hour window, the hand-built implementation playbook tuned to your programme is delivered alongside the course.

First template walkthrough (the cybersecurity interface agreement) is included in the module 6 worked example and can be used the same week.

Before and after

Before

The head-unit, the rider app, and the telematics gateway run as three programmes with three release trains, the R155 and ISO 21434 evidence is reconstructed during audit windows, dealer service treats connectivity faults as head-unit swaps, and the model-year freeze consumes most of the staff engineer's calendar.

After

One signed-OTA pipeline carries the head-unit, the app, and the gateway. Cybersecurity evidence and type-approval artefacts come out of the build as a by-product. Dealer service follows a documented decision tree with measurable warranty outcomes. The staff engineer spends model-year freeze time on architecture, not on assembling evidence.

What happens if you do not address this

A single mis-signed OTA campaign, a type-approval evidence gap caught during a R155 audit, or a connectivity-fault swap pattern that escalates to a recall trigger can each cost more than a full model-year programme of staff-engineer attention. The cost of running the connected stack as three uncoordinated programmes is paid in dealer warranty, in rider satisfaction scores, and in regulator confidence.

Who it is for

Staff or principal engineer leading infotainment and connectivity on a vehicle programme where the head-unit is Android Automotive or a comparable embedded Linux stack, a rider or driver companion phone app is part of the product, a cellular telematics gateway is fitted, and the company carries its own type-approval and dealer-diagnostic responsibility. Typical context: motorcycle OEM, recreational vehicle OEM, or specialty automotive programme with annual model-year freezes and a global dealer network.

Who this is NOT for. Not for software engineers writing only one of the three pieces (head-unit only, app only, or telematics only). Not for cybersecurity auditors who do not write code. Not for product managers without engineering ownership of the build. The playbook assumes you are accountable for the integration result across all three layers.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. Roughly twelve hours of focused reading across the twelve modules, plus four to eight hours to populate the templates for your programme. Most staff engineers work through the modules over two to three weeks in parallel with normal programme work.

Why $199 is the right number

Public ISO 21434 and R155 training courses teach the standards in the abstract and stop at the audit boundary. Supplier training from a head-unit or telematics vendor covers their own stack and ends at the integration boundary. This playbook starts at the integration boundary and works outward, which is the only place a staff engineer holding the whole product actually lives.

FAQ

Is this a generic automotive cybersecurity course?

No. It is built for the staff or principal engineer who owns the integration of a head-unit, a companion app, and a telematics gateway as one product. ISO 21434 and R155 are covered as the evidence-generating work of building, not as standalone topics.

Does it apply if our head-unit is not Android Automotive?

The Android Automotive details in module 2 carry through to comparable embedded Linux stacks. The release-train, OTA, supplier-contract, and dealer-diagnostic patterns are platform-neutral. If your head-unit is QNX or a custom Linux build, the templates still apply.

We are not in a UNECE R155 jurisdiction. Does the type-approval material still matter?

Yes. The CSMS practices in module 7 are increasingly being adopted as evidence by US, Japanese, and Korean regulators even where R155 is not formally enforced, and the same evidence supports voluntary cybersecurity disclosure programmes.

What format is the course in?

Written modules with downloadable templates and worked examples, plus the per-buyer implementation playbook. The format is built for engineers who read fast and need the templates in their hands.

What is the refund?

30-day refund if the playbook does not fit your programme. The implementation playbook is hand-built, so the refund covers the case where the fit is wrong, not buyer's remorse.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.