Samsara Inc. announced a major expansion of its AI-powered safety platform that gives operational leaders and frontline managers a comprehensive toolkit to reduce risk at scale.
The new features—including Weather Intelligence, Automated Coaching, and Worker Safety—are designed to help operation leaders improve fleet safety in and outside of the cab.
“For the first time, three powerful forces are converging to make roads safer: the transformative power of AI, our unmatched scale of data, and our deep partnerships with leading fleets globally,” says Johan Land, SVP of product engineering at Samsara. “The results will be the single most impactful driver of road safety outcomes in history, giving leaders the tools to move from reacting to incidents to proactively preventing them. This ensures every fleet, regardless of size, can achieve transformative results and make a tangible difference in road safety."
Key takeaways:
· Samsara Weather Intelligence enables operational leaders to track weather and road risks in real-time within the Samsara platform.
· The Samsara platform now displays National Weather Service alerts and live weather overlays. These include radar, wind speed, thunderstorm risk, and temperature, as well as which drivers and assets are at risk—built directly into the map.
· Managers can send proactive warnings directly to drivers in severe weather zones via in-cab dash cams or Driver App alerts, ensuring drivers can navigate safely.
· Managers can access live dash cam footage from their fleet vehicles in weather-impacted areas. This footage can be combined with anonymized footage from nearby vehicles on the Samsara Network via StreetSense.
· Samsara’s new AI-powered coaching experience helps fleets scale their safety programs and dramatically reduce risk, without adding resources or overburdening existing teams. Managers can now leverage AI and automation to coach, train, and recognize drivers at scale—regardless of fleet size.
· AI automatically analyzes and prioritizes safety events based on risk factors such as behavior frequency and severity, trip conditions, and driver history. Lower-priority events are sent to drivers for self-review, while high-risk events are escalated to managers.
· Managers can view fleet performance from a single dashboard and easily pinpoint high-risk drivers who need support and top performers to celebrate. By making risk and recognition equally visible, Samsara helps teams reduce incidents and engage and retain their best drivers.
· Samsara’s platform allows managers to automatically generate presentations for team-wide training, using AI to provide insights into big-picture behavioral trends across drivers and trips.
· Samsara’s Worker Safety helps keep frontline teams safe wherever they work, whether inside or outside the vehicle. With worker safety solutions integrated directly into the fleet management solution, managers are equipped with unparalleled contextual insights.
· New features include one-click SOS, where workers can quickly alert managers to safety threats, such as falls, worksite injuries from machinery or overexertion, severe weather or aggressive encounters. By clicking the SOS button within the Samsara App, workers can send an immediate alert with rich, on-the-ground insight—including live camera footage and nearby vehicles. Managers can also dispatch emergency services in just a few clicks, along with contextual information so they can act immediately upon arrival. And, managers can proactively check in on workers. For example, if a driver is idling for an unusually long time, managers can touch base to make sure everything is OK. These check-ins can be timed in the instance a worker is in high-risk situations, such as working roadside during the night.
