Introducing Samsara for Connected Equipment

What is the Samsara Platform?

Samsara is a completely connected operations platform. Using gateways, sensors, and cloud integrations, we provide real-time visibility of your physical operations – from your equipment and vehicle fleets to your remote job sites. Our platform transforms operational data into business value and arms customers with business insights to save money, save time and remain competitive. 

Hardware, software, and cloud integration in a single platform to connect your operations

Consolidated Architecture

As the backbone of our solution, our Industrial Gateways take on the heavy lifting of deploying remote monitoring. With dual-SIM LTE cellular built-in, carrier contracts fully managed by Samsara, and unlimited data storage in the cloud, there is no need to deploy or maintain multiple point solutions. This means you can spend less time on installation, less time troubleshooting, and more time focusing on your business. Simply connect our gateways to your equipment and begin streaming data directly to Samsara’s cloud-based dashboards in minutes.

Broad Compatibility

We know that our customer’s operations are complex, involving multiple existing systems and pieces of equipment. We also know that for most organizations, rip-and-replace is simply not an option. That’s why our gateways are also designed to be broadly compatible with the mix of equipment types, makes, and models as well as the legacy instrumentation, PLCs, and sensors that already exist across most industrial operations. 

Connect all of your equipment, legacy instrumentation, and data systems

Our platform enables you to connect everything from compressors, generators, pumps, and boilers, to custom equipment and PLCs by supporting the most common industrial protocols, including EtherNet/IP, Modbus, ROC, and CAN. In addition, with expandable input/output modules, it’s easy to fit your exact needs - whether you are monitoring a single site with a few sensors or a large operation with mixed asset types and PLCs.

Instant Visibility

Data collection is just one piece of the puzzle, and at Samsara we strive to transform that data into powerful, actionable insights. Our dashboards and reports are ready to visualize data from the Gateway as soon it’s collected from your equipment, without additional development work. Data is presented in trendlines and in one-second intervals for further analysis, so you can get a deep understanding of equipment performance over time and enable more effective remote troubleshooting. Additionally, alarms can be set up for any data point pulled in by our gateways–allowing you to keep a finger on the pulse of your most critical parameters. All of this is optimized for mobile devices, giving your team the ability to easily use each tool in their existing workflows.

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How can you use the Samsara Platform?

Our customers span across a number of industries including equipment rental and distribution, oil and gas, field services, utilities, and more. Samsara provides a number of features to help our customers improve their operations. 

Features

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What can you do?

Whether it’s catching an issue before it escalates, developing preventative maintenance schedules, using runtime data to better allocate resources, or simply producing more accurate compliance and production reports, Samsara can be easily adapted to fit your needs. Some of the most common ways our customers use Samsara are outlined below. 

Prevent downtime with remote troubleshooting

Many of our customers use Samsara to enable remote troubleshooting for their technicians and operators and prevent equipment downtime. Alerts can be set up for any important equipment parameters and delivered to technicians the second an issue arises. From here, historical trending data provides context to better understand what caused the issue. If it’s a potentially dangerous situation, you can remotely shut down equipment as well. This reduces truck rolls and helps speed time to resolution so that issues can be handled before they escalate to downtime.

Optimize Dispatch

For our customers servicing remote equipment or refueling mobile equipment, truck rolls are one of the most significant costs in keeping their operations running. Samsara allows you to track and alert on real-time parameters like pressures or fuel levels in dashboards. These data points can then be used to time dispatch–ensuring that service trucks are sent out at the right time. This data can even be fed into maintenance work order systems via our open API ensuring a seamless experience for every user.  

Build preventative maintenance schedules 

For more advanced customers, Samsara can provide the data needed to build more effective preventative maintenance schedules. Depending on the complexity of your equipment, you can analyze historical trending data across just a few or hundreds of parameters, right in Samsara dashboards. Using this data, you can begin to understand exactly what an impending failure looks like. For example, following the failure of a specific component, you could refer back to the number of run cycles since that component was last replaced, giving you an understanding of the average number of days before the next failure. 

Our calculations feature also allows you to automatically take each of these data points and calculate health and efficiency scores (e.g. pump efficiency) in real-time, so you can understand when a piece of equipment is underperforming and due for a replacement or a repair, all via a simple alert or glance at a dashboard. 

Introducing the IG41

As the backbone of Samsara’s remote monitoring solution, the IG41 streams critical data from industrial equipment directly to Samsara’s cloud-based platform, giving organizations the visibility they need to operate more efficiently. Learn more at https://www.samsara.com/fleet/equipment-monitoring