As technology becomes more advanced, motor carriers are gaining new opportunities to make workers at all levels more efficient by bringing together information and workflows in a “single pane of glass” for greater control and visibility.
Samsara, a provider of ELD and IoT technology for fleet management, added a new Site Visibility feature for monitoring physical locations using AI cameras in a single dashboard alongside driver video and safety data captured by Dash Cameras.
Food Express, a bulk transportation business based in Arcadia, California, recently began switching to Samsara Fleet products that include Samsara’s Vehicle Gateways, Asset Gateways and Dash Cameras, when management learned about Site Visibility.
“Food Express needed even more visibility into our operations,” said Jim Terry, Director of IT. “The Site Cameras complement our fleet tracking so we can better monitor our assets. We get complete visibility this way and can view everything from a single, Samsara dashboard.”
One of the biggest advantages to Sites, Terry said, is that being cloud-based makes it possible to observe facilities from anywhere at any time and have a reliable source that is not on premises. “We hadn't seen a solution like that on the market before,” he said.
Food Express has set up alerts in Sites to detect when workers are not wearing harnesses, and to detect vehicles and people after-hours that could indicate theft.
