The Samsara Keynote speech this morning at The Samsara Beyond Event was attended by over 2,000 people in Chicago. Highlighting the critical role Samsara plays in helping operations in global logistics and how this inspired the development of the products going forward.
Sanjit Biswas, CEO of Samsara
Sanjit Biswas, CEO of Samsara, talked through Samsara’s Connected Operations Cloud and its aims to address challenges like safety, sustainability, and labour issues through their technology.
There were some great success stories, including DHL’s reduction in accidents, and Otto Cars move to bring cleaner air to the London area.
Samsara’s platform has significantly improved safety and efficiency, and future expansions include construction equipment and now drones. This community based collaboration was also praised, as it drives greater outcomes.
Since its launch Samsara are proud to have achieved an amazing level of safety and environmental statistics:
- prevent 200,000 crashes
- saved significant time through workflow automation
- reduced CO2 emissions by 3 billion pounds.
In the UK companies like Otto Car and Lanes Group have been prototyping and field testing some of the new and innovative additions to their product portfolio.
Some of these new features were announced by Kiren Sekar, Samsara’s Chief Product Officer, and he talked through the several new product innovations that will continue to drive safety and security going forward.
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Connected Workflows
By using data within the Samsara platform, Connected Workflows is able to do things that were excessively time-consuming before. For example, if a Samsara Vehicle Gateway detects a crash, Connected Workflows can automatically assign an incident report to the driver of the vehicle. And once the form is submitted and approved, a root cause analysis form can be assigned to a supervisor. By creating multi-step workflows, we’re eliminating busy work for field workers and freeing up admin time to tackle new business challenges.
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Connected Training
With Samsara’s Connected Training, organisations now have a way to train workers anytime, anywhere with remote access to courses directly in the Samsara Driver App. As training courses are directly integrated with the Samsara platform, managers can assign them to workers using behaviour-based data and enforce completion within a certain timeframe. Moreover, trainings can also be personalised with course creation and import capabilities or SambaSafety expert-led videos, helping to streamline all training requirements across your organisation.
AI Detection
Driven by increasing costs and operating in high-risk work environments, organisations are looking to reduce risk with AI technology and safety data. With Samsara’s AI detections, customers can empower their drivers on the road, to drive more safely in real-time.
Currently rolling out to customers, these AI-based detections proactively alert drivers to several new risky behaviours to help drivers be safer in the moment. These capabilities are integrated with Samsara’s coaching workflows and reporting capabilities to help managers quickly identify repeat behaviours and provide targeted video-based coaching. Samsara’s newest real-time AI detections include:
- Forward Collision Warning to help prevent drivers from getting into a rear-end collision. A-One Chipseal, a full-service asphalt maintenance and pavement preservation company based in Denver, Colorado has reduced their forward collisions from 50% of all accidents to 0% using the detection.
- Drowsiness Detection to help drivers stay alert on the road and notify managers to early signs of fatigue. Sentinel Transportation, a leading provider of transportation services for crude oil, fuel, and other products, is using the detection to alert drivers to early signs of drowsiness. According to Sentinel, “Getting a proactive alert that a driver is fatigued or yawning allows us to contact them to avoid a potential collision.”
- Lane Departure Warning to help prevent unsafe lane departures and reduce side-swiping risks in real-time. Certarus, a North American leader in providing on-road low carbon energy solutions, including compressed natural gas (CNG) and hydrogen, is using the detection to improve coaching. According to the Certarus team, “Now we have the full story so managers can coach drivers and understand why they’re going over the line in the first place.”
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Samsara Asset Tag
It’s easy to lose track of critical tools on a busy job site, and all of those losses can add up. In fact, a significant number of tool purchases are made due to loss, theft, and damage, and buying replacements can cost millions of dollars a year. Workers can also waste valuable time waiting for tools and equipment on job sites, creating significant delays and potentially lowering customer satisfaction.
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With Asset Tag, Samsara is making it easy to track and locate small assets that are critical to your operation. Asset Tag is a small Mars bar fun sized tracker that can be attached to valuable assets such as toolboxes, plant, and more.
This equipment can then be tracked using the Samsara Network, an industrial network comprising millions of devices that give organizations near real-time visibility across all of their assets. Asset Tag also offers the ability to see inventory by location, as well as an Asset Search feature that allows you to share asset locations with technicians via the Samsara Driver App. Moreover, Asset Tag offers Asset Filtering, a tool that provides a summary of your equipment and allows you to apply filters to see which tools are in proximity to your fleet for proactive asset management.
With Asset Tag, organizations can reduce theft and misplacement to help control equipment costs, while also lowering downtime at job sites and time spent on searching for tools, helping to boost productivity.
“About a year ago, the Asset Tag was born from a radical idea that we could use the millions of Samsara Gateways we have out in the field to create a network, enabling ‘tags’ to ping off those devices. With this, we’d unlock a level of asset tracking that was previously impossible and solve even more real-world problems for our customers,” explained David Gal, Vice President, Product and Engineering at Samsara. “After months of rigorous testing and customer feedback, I’m excited to see this vision become a reality. As we further connect every aspect of physical operations, we can turn massive amounts of data into valuable insights and drive real results.”
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The Pike Corporation is a leading provider of infrastructure solutions for electric and gas utility companies within the United States. They use the Samsara platform across Vehicle Telematics, Video-Based Safety, and Asset Tracking to connect their operations. Most recently, Pike has begun testing Samsara’s Asset Tag to help recover misplaced or lost tools and equipment and accurately track safety PPE to comply with annual OSHA testing requirements.
“We have several high-value assets like service gloves and electrical grounds that don’t have serial numbers, but still need to be tracked, managed, and inspected to remain compliant,” said James Banner, Senior Vice President of Administration at Pike Electric. “Previously misplaced equipment would take us weeks to locate and if lost entirely, cost up to a million dollars to replace annually. With Samsara’s Asset Tags, we are hoping to minimise this downtime, cut costs, and digitise manual inspection processes – all while keeping our employees safe and efficient. We’re just getting started with this technology and I look forward to seeing what else it can do.”
