Dean Drako’s Automotive Vision

Dean Drako, the founder and CEO of Eagle Eye Networks and owner and chairman of Brivo is also an automotive enthusiast with his own electric car company, Drako Motors. Dean recently talked with SP&T News about his passion for cars and the lessons for security that he’s gained from this long-time parallel interest.

From the SP&T article:
Growing up in Detroit, Drako was surrounded by car culture. “That’s what makes the city go round,” he says.

A car lover who has spent a lot of time behind the wheel, he couldn’t help but see what he says is a flaw in modern automotive design — a lackluster approach to software integration.

“I was always disappointed with the electronics architecture and the lack of software architecture,” he says.

Drako saw an opportunity to develop better software for cars that was fully integrated and started an R&D project for an operating system that could run a car more effectively and efficiently.

“How would that work? How would it communicate with all the components?” Drako figured the quickest and best way to find out was to design a prototype vehicle to run the software, and a new company was born.