Samsara co-founder and CEO Sanji Biswas pronounces new options for the corporate’s Linked Operations Cloud. (Seth Clevenger/Transport Matters)
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AUSTIN, Texas — Samsara is increasing its related fleet know-how with new options designed to help extra proactive driver teaching, combine extra information streams and supply prospects deeper insights into their operations.
The know-how supplier showcased its newest product enhancements and reiterated its imaginative and prescient for extra related and more and more data-driven fleet operations at its annual buyer convention, Samsara Past 2023, held June 21-23.
“We stay in a time of digital transformation,” mentioned Samsara CEO and co-founder Sanjit Biswas, who illustrated how the landmark applied sciences of latest many years have achieved widespread adoption at an accelerating tempo, from desktop computer systems to smartphones and now synthetic intelligence capabilities such because the AI chatbot ChatGPT.
“These waves of digital transformation maintain hitting us,” he mentioned. “They go sooner and sooner and sooner.”
And that is a wrap on #SamsaraBeyond 2023!
An enormous thanks to all of our prospects and companions for making this yr’s Past so successful! We’re thrilled to be digitally remodeling bodily operations with you.
Till subsequent yr… pic.twitter.com/2a7OJKmGm0
— Samsara (@Samsara) June 23, 2023
This transformation is going on not solely in client know-how, but in addition in industrial fleet and industrial operations, Biswas mentioned.
Know-how-enabled driver teaching and AI-supported dashcams are yielding vital real-world enhancements in fleet security, effectivity and environmental sustainability, he mentioned.
Extrapolating from improved security and effectivity outcomes, Samsara projected that its buyer base prevented greater than 120,000 crashes in 2022 whereas digitizing greater than 110 million workflows and eliminating 130 million hours of engine idling to avoid wasting gasoline and scale back carbon emissions.
On the protection entrance, Samsara is extending its help for driver teaching.
.@Samsara has launched a number of new product options right here at #SamsaraBeyond, together with Digital Coach for distant driver security coaching, Cell Expertise Administration to maintain employees related and productive, and Discover My Asset for finding trailers and different property. pic.twitter.com/yeJiZd1qar
— Seth Clevenger (@SethClevenger) June 22, 2023
The corporate launched its new Digital Coach characteristic, which allows drivers to evaluation their security efficiency, be taught from their errors and enhance their driving conduct whereas they’re out on the highway.
Fairly than ready for in-person teaching, drivers can entry video of doubtless unsafe driving together with fleet managers’ personalised notes by way of the Samsara Driver App originally or finish of the day, and even throughout a relaxation break.
The beta model of Digital Coach is now out there to prospects.
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Much less-than-truckload service XPO is piloting the brand new digital teaching characteristic, together with Samsara’s in-cab alerts, which notify drivers if they’re dashing, following too shut or obstructing the cab digital camera.
These real-time alerts, mixed with the chance to later evaluation video of dangerous driving occasions, empowers drivers to self-correct their conduct, mentioned Greg Pawelski, XPO’s vp of well being and security.
“Inherently, skilled drivers need to be secure. They need to do the correct factor,” mentioned Pawelski, who added that the driving occupation has develop into more difficult on account of worsening visitors congestion and sharing the highway with motorists who’re all too usually distracted whereas driving.
XPO ranks No. 5 on the Transport Matters Prime 100 checklist of the biggest for-hire carriers in North America.
To unlock higher effectivity for fleet operators, Samsara is pushing ahead with its efforts to attach disparate information sources.
Samsara’s Linked Operations Cloud now helps greater than 240 integrations with numerous know-how distributors, gear producers, gasoline card suppliers, insurance coverage corporations and different business companions.
What’s the way forward for Linked Operations? We’re about to search out out in a #SamsaraBeyond panel dialogue with Jeff Hausman and Samsara prospects and companions @WeAreConGlobal, @XPOLogistics, and @Stellantis’ Mobilisights. pic.twitter.com/pELVDIRZnu
— Samsara (@Samsara) June 23, 2023
The corporate’s bigger prospects are actually using about six information integrations on common, up from about 4 a yr in the past, Biswas mentioned.
“That simply goes to indicate you the momentum available in the market to deliver all this information collectively and discover extra insights and have extra influence,” he mentioned.
The telematics firm additionally introduced it’s including new information connectors with third-party information integration platforms Fivetran and Apache Kafka and information analytics software program Microsoft Energy BI, enabling fleets to realize extra holistic visibility into their operations.
Insights extracted from all this information are remodeling the best way drivers work and fleets run their companies, mentioned Jeff Hausman, Samsara’s chief product officer.
Jeff Hausman, @Samsara’s chief product officer, says information and insights are remodeling the best way fleets and drivers work. “Information is your gasoline for higher outcomes.” #SamsaraBeyond pic.twitter.com/SSw1KoAHPJ
— Seth Clevenger (@SethClevenger) June 22, 2023
“Information is your gasoline for higher outcomes,” he mentioned.
One other new software program characteristic is Cell Expertise Administration, which allows drivers and different employees to obtain custom-made help comparable to distant coaching and troubleshooting by means of their cell units whereas stopping pointless digital distractions.
“That’s going to assist maintain them related and productive,” Hausman mentioned.
Samsara is also increasing its asset monitoring capabilities.
The corporate’s new Discover My Asset characteristic allows managers to shortly pinpoint the placement of trailers and different property.
Samsara additionally added a brand new two-way integration with Thermo King’s TracKing system to make it doable for purchasers to not solely monitor however remotely management their Thermo King transport refrigeration items from the Samsara dashboard.
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