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City hears results of 60‑day Samsara fleet pilot showing video, GPS and maintenance gains
Summary
Samsara presented a roughly 45–60 day pilot of dash cameras and telematics on about 24 city vehicles, showing maintenance alerts, reduced idling and hundreds of safety events; the public works department is evaluating continued use and reported lower insurance costs.
Poughkeepsie — Samsara, a connected‑operations company, told the Poughkeepsie Common Council on Sept. 9 that a roughly 45‑ to 60‑day pilot of dash cameras and telematics on about 24 city vehicles produced data the city is using for driver coaching, maintenance scheduling and incident review.
The pilot captured more than 22,000 miles and about 2,000 vehicle hours across the fleet, company representative Austin O’Shea said, and produced more than 800 safety events including 295 speeding events and 202 rolling‑stop detections. The system also identified that about 32% of engine time in the pilot was idling, a figure the public works team has worked to reduce.
The city’s public works staff used telematics and a “proximity search” to verify…
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