AI Steers Fleets to Record Safety and Efficiency in Samsara Report

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 13, 2026 – As industries powering the global economy continue to navigate complex challenges, new data reveals the profound impact of artificial intelligence and connected technology on operational performance. Samsara Inc. (NYSE: IOT), a pioneer in the Connected Operations® Platform, has released its 2025 Year in Review, an extensive analysis drawing from over 90 billion miles driven by its customers. The report highlights staggering improvements, including a 73% reduction in crash rates for fleets using its full AI safety suite and a collective saving of over 261 million gallons of fuel.

The annual report provides a personalized look at each customer's performance while contextualizing it within the anonymized, aggregated data from Samsara’s vast network. In 2025, this network represented 2.2 billion hours spent on the road by frontline teams in transportation, construction, logistics, and other essential sectors. The findings underscore a significant shift towards data-driven management, where AI is no longer a futuristic concept but a practical tool delivering measurable results in safety, efficiency, and sustainability.

The AI Co-Pilot: Redefining Fleet Safety Standards

The most striking figure from the 2025 report is the 73% lower crash rate. This remarkable improvement is not a blanket average but is specific to organizations that have fully deployed Samsara’s comprehensive AI safety solution. This suite includes dual-facing AI dash cams that detect risky behavior, provide real-time in-cab alerts to drivers, and facilitate AI-powered driver coaching. Research accompanying the report indicates these safety gains compound over time, with fleets seeing a 37% crash rate reduction within the first six months, which deepens as the technology becomes more integrated into their safety programs.

The platform's success hinges on creating a proactive safety culture rather than a reactive one. In 2025, teams reviewed 17% more safety events year-over-year, delivering 11.6 million AI-driven coaching moments to drivers. This increase in engagement points to a more systematic approach to risk management, enabled by tools that automate and prioritize the review process.

AI Insights, a key feature, helps managers quickly identify behavioral patterns that might otherwise be lost in raw data. “With AI Insights, we get AI-generated summaries that give us a quick, clear look at driver behavior over time,” said Roy “Duke” Adukkalil, Fleet Safety Coordinator at Feeney Brothers and DDS Companies. “Patterns are easier to spot, which makes safety reviews faster and more efficient.”

This efficiency allows safety leaders to focus on targeted interventions. The Performance Overview Dashboard provides tangible proof of what works. “Because of the Performance Overview Dashboard, we have proof that our numbers are increasing based on the right approaches in coaching,” noted Otis Anderson, Safety Compliance Analyst at Jordan Carriers. By quantifying improvement, the platform helps organizations validate their safety strategies and demonstrate return on investment.

Driving Toward Sustainability: Fuel Efficiency's Economic and Environmental Impact

Beyond safety, fuel efficiency remained a critical focus for operators in 2025, with rising costs and environmental pressures demanding smarter solutions. Samsara customers achieved a community-wide average of 10.7 miles per gallon (MPG), a 4% improvement over the previous year. While seemingly modest, this incremental gain translated into a massive combined savings of 261.7 million gallons of fuel.

This reduction has a significant environmental benefit. The saved fuel prevented approximately 2.32 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere, an impact equivalent to taking nearly 500,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles off the road for an entire year. For businesses, these savings directly bolster the bottom line, turning operational data into a powerful financial lever.

The platform enables these gains by providing granular visibility into the factors that drive fuel consumption. The Fuel and Energy Report gives managers detailed breakdowns of idling time, cruise control usage, coasting, and engine diagnostics. This data is used to create driver efficiency scores based on metrics like time spent in the optimal RPM range and instances of harsh acceleration, allowing for targeted coaching on fuel-saving behaviors.

For many, this level of insight is transformative. “When I got that first Fuel and Energy Report, it was an ‘aha!’ moment,” said Todd VanDam, Continuous Improvement Manager at Gordon Food Service. “With visibility into idling time and other important information, we could translate raw data into a comprehensive view of driver behavior. It’s helping us transform into a more fully connected operation.”

The Power of the Pack: How Aggregated Data Creates Smarter Fleets

A unique aspect of Samsara's Year in Review is its use of aggregated community data to provide context. Individual fleet managers can see how their team’s performance on metrics like idling, speeding, or safety events stacks up against the anonymized average of thousands of other organizations. This benchmarking turns isolated data points into strategic insights, revealing areas for improvement that might not be apparent when viewed in a vacuum.

This collective intelligence is built upon a foundation of immense scale. The 90 billion miles driven in 2025 provide a robust and reliable dataset that helps level the playing field, allowing a small regional distributor to benchmark its performance against the standards set by industry leaders. By understanding what is achievable across a wide spectrum of operations, companies can set more ambitious and realistic performance goals.

Customer engagement with the platform’s AI tools further illustrates this trend. In 2025, users interacted with Samsara Assistant—an AI-powered tool for surfacing information—over 695,200 times, demonstrating a growing reliance on intelligent systems to answer operational questions quickly. This shift from manual data digging to conversational inquiry allows managers to spend less time building reports and more time acting on insights.

Connecting the Dots for the Future of Operations

The 2025 report makes it clear that the value of IoT technology extends far beyond single-point solutions for tracking vehicles or monitoring fuel. The true power lies in the Connected Operations® Platform, which integrates data from vehicles, equipment, worksites, and people into a unified system. The most frequently accessed reports—spanning Hours of Service (HOS), Driver Documents, Cameras, and Safety—show that customers are using the platform to manage the full lifecycle of their operations.

By breaking down data silos, the platform provides a holistic view that enables smarter, faster decision-making across an entire organization. The success stories in safety and fuel efficiency are not isolated wins but outcomes of a deeply integrated approach. As more businesses embrace this model, the data-driven standards for safety, efficiency, and sustainability highlighted in Samsara's 2025 review are quickly becoming the new benchmark for operational excellence across the global economy.