At Samsara, we are continuously innovating to solve our customer’s most critical challenges—safety, theft and loss, driver retention, fuel efficiency, and maintenance. The first quarter of this year saw a significant wave of product and feature updates designed to deliver value to your fleet's operations. Safety was a major focus, resulting in a series of transformative innovations, setting new standards for fleet safety. Unlike reactive solutions that are limited to identifying and alerting driver mistakes, Samsara is committed to providing a complete platform. This includes addressing risk, coaching drivers, providing recognition, and protecting your people and assets.

Here's a closer look at our key updates:

Intelligent safety platform

Safety isn’t just about detecting risky behaviors—it’s about understanding everything a driver faces on the road. Our comprehensive platform uses leading automation and AI to truly understand risk patterns, enabling targeted coaching, celebrating driver excellence with recognition, and ultimately, safeguarding your most valuable assets: your people.

• Intelligent Safety Inbox: Deliver more effective coaching with AI-powered trip and driver insights. Prioritize the most critical risks activities—like crashes, drowsiness, and dangerous speeding—and recognize and reward positive behaviors.  

• AI Insights: Enable safety managers to see and address most important safety insights across your fleet. AI Insights analyzes video footage, driver trip histories, Safety Scores, and more to create AI-generated Summaries that facilitate more impactful and effective coaching.

• Positive Recognition: Deliver a consistently great driver experience without creating extra work for supervisors with Positive Recognition, a new capability to recognize excellent driving across safety, HOS compliance, and fuel efficiency. 

• Helicopter View live streaming: Gain real-time visual insight into road conditions and driver perspectives, enabling proactive coaching and efficient operational oversight during critical events.

• Visibility into road hazards: Improve routing and minimize hazards with real-time visibility of construction zones (in the U.S.) directly within your Samsara dashboard.

• Visibility into weather: Enhance safety and route planning by accessing current and forecasted weather patterns using data from the Weather Channel API. View directly on the Samsara dashboard and see details like wind speed, snow, and precipitation.

• Privacy mode camera recording: Customize compliance with regulations like GDPR and address driver privacy concerns by disabling specific dash cam recordings while retaining critical AI-powered safety event detection.

• Camera recording status visibility for drivers: Foster transparency and trust by enabling a visible LED light on dash cams, clearly indicating when recording is active.

• Safety media APIs: Efficiently retrieve video or high-resolution still images from safety devices through API requests, streamlining incident review and analysis.

Fuel efficiency

• Advanced idling insights: Achieve greater fuel savings while supporting driver comfort with an enhanced idling report incorporating weather-aware settings, driver assignment details, ambient temperature information, and PTO status.

• Idling heatmap overlay: Identify idling hotspots within the Overview map to investigate where idling is happening and reduce unnecessary fuel consumption.

Compliance

• CARB Clean Truck Check (CTC) Manager: Simplify and streamline emissions compliance for fleets operating within California, supporting remote testing and automated reporting through the Samsara platform.

• Heavy haul exemption: Reduce road time and enhance safety by enabling exemption from the mandatory 30-minute break for eligible drivers who have a government-issued permit to transport oversized and overweight loads.

• Customizable ELD remarks: Enhance driver efficiency and back-office record-keeping by adding, editing, removing, and reordering default remarks that appear in the Samsara Driver App. 

• Satellite Connectivity: Ensure uninterrupted visibility, safety, and control, even in the most remote environments with a rugged, plug-and-play solution that pairs directly with the Samsara Platform. 

Smart Trailers

• Tire health monitoring: Monitor tire inflation (ATIS) and tire pressure (TPMS) in the Samsara dashboard. Gain real-time visibility into tire health, including alerts for extended inflation or low pressure. 

• Trailer power monitoring: Ensure continuous trailer tracking and prevent operational disruptions by receiving timely alerts when a trailer moves without a power connection.

• Trailer assignment mismatch detection: Minimize costly errors and delays by quickly identifying mismatches between trailers and tractors, enabling prompt corrective action.

• Asset Search: Empower drivers to avoid time-consuming yard hunts by efficiently locating assigned or unassigned trailers with the Samsara Driver App. 

• Electronic Brake Performance Monitoring System (EBPMS): Seamlessly meet Europe's new DVSA guidelines and potentially reduce the need for costly and time-consuming physical brake tests.

Platform

• Customizable data retention settings: Set data retention periods for various data types like safety and speeding data, HOS, DVIRs, or Dash Cam video to meet compliance, providing the flexibility to meet specific compliance and internal policy requirements.

• Device health report: Gain a comprehensive and up-to-date view of both Gateway and Camera health, complete with insightful details and troubleshooting guidance.

• Driver password: Strengthen fleet security with a minimum password requirement of eight characters for all newly created and reset driver passwords within the Samsara system.

• Multi-factor authentication: Enhance the security of administrative accounts by enforcing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for users with privileged access.

• Asset and installation photos: Improve tracking, verification, and troubleshooting by uploading and managing asset and installation images directly within the Install Flow and dashboard.

Integrations

The Samsara App Marketplace includes 300+ integrations to provide more options to seamlessly integrate fleet management, fuel, insurance, and compliance solutions. This quarter, we announced: 

• Continental Tire: Manage tire issues before they become over the road breakdowns with real-time alerts and visibility integrated into Samsara Smart Trailer.

• Hyundai Translead: Eliminate blind spots and provide drivers with a comprehensive real-time view of their surroundings using the HT LinkVue app for a 360-degree bird’s-eye-view.

• Northland Insurance: Leverage telematics data to potentially improve driver safety and efficiency, contributing to reduced insurance costs.

• HCSS Telematics: Streamline fleet management processes, optimize maintenance schedules, and minimize operational downtime through seamless integration.

• Liebherr: Seamlessly stream data from Liebherr equipment, one of the largest construction machine manufacturers in the world, into the Samsara platform.

• Voyager: Automate the import of Voyager fuel card transaction data, simplifying fuel management and improving accuracy.

• Fleevo Fuel Analytics: Detect suspicious fuel purchase activities and fuel card misuse by seamlessly integrating fuel cards and 3rd party fuel management systems. 

• Relay Pulse: Combat fuel fraud and reduce administrative burden with an ELD integration that automatically syncs driver, vehicle, and fueling data.

• HDI Insurance: Use telemetry and claims data to generate fleet safety scores, aiding in risk management and continuous improvement of driver performance. This integration is currently available in EMEA.

• Numeo AI: Ensure compliance by accessing real-time vehicle (GPS, engine state, fuel level) and driver information seamlessly.

• WasteVision: Enhance operational efficiency and safety for waste management companies with AI-powered overflow detection, contamination identification, and service verification.

We encourage you to learn more about these exciting updates. Get detailed information, including live demos, in our recent webinar recording or by visiting our help center. New to Samsara? Contact us today to explore how these innovative features can benefit your unique operational needs.