Samsara operates a Connected Operations Platform that aggregates IoT data from physical assets - vehicles, equipment, devices - across construction, logistics, field services, and manufacturing. The company processes over 25 trillion data points annually and manages hundreds of millions of digitized workflows for tens of thousands of customers globally. Its product stack includes telematics, video-based dash cam systems, real-time GPS tracking, electronic logging devices (ELDs), maintenance monitoring, and routing optimization, with AI models layered across these domains to surface actionable insights.
The security surface is substantial. Samsara collects continuous streams of location data, video, driver behavior metrics, and operational telemetry from distributed fleets and field assets. That dataset fuels machine learning models for safety and efficiency optimization. The threat model spans vehicle tampering and sensor spoofing, compromise of cloud infrastructure handling sensitive operational data, authentication and access control across a multi-tenant SaaS platform, firmware integrity on edge devices, and supply chain risks in hardware distribution. Video data alone introduces privacy and compliance considerations across jurisdictions.
Samsara is publicly traded (NYSE: IOT) with headquarters in San Francisco and offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. The platform is designed as open - connecting third-party devices and systems - which creates integration complexity alongside extensibility. Engineering teams work across embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, computer vision, real-time data processing, and ML model development. The company was founded in 2015 by repeat entrepreneurs with prior exit experience.
