Rubicon and Samsara team for smarter waste

Smart waste company Rubicon Technologies has entered a strategic technology partnership with Samsara to help expand its reach and unlock new value for shared municipal customers.

Together, Rubicon and Samsara claim their complementary technology suites will help enable heavy-duty municipal fleet operations to optimise routes and citizen services. In turn this will improve efficiency, empower drivers, lock in community safety gains, and save tax-payer dollars.

Operations data

Samsara’s Connected Operations Cloud is built to access, analyse, and act on the world’s vast expanse of operations data. Thousands of customers spanning transportation, government, food and beverage, and more use mission-critical insights from Samsara to shape their operations.

According to Samsara, streamlined data sharing made possible by its open API provides customers with a “single source of truth” to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain operational resilience.

RubiconSmartCity is a proprietary, cloud-based technology suite that helps municipal governments run faster, smarter, and more effective waste, recycling, and heavy-duty municipal fleet operations.

“Through this integration, we look forward to coupling the scale of Samsara’s Connected Operations Cloud with Rubicon’s smart city technology to give customers the visibility they need to provide smarter and safer citizen services”

As part of this partnership, RubiconSmartCity is now available on the Samsara App Marketplace as the companies seek to help further improve efficiency and sustainability in government fleets. Shared municipal customers will have access to fault code, speeding, fuel level, and GPS data as well as complete visibility into vehicle diagnostics information and full operational data across the platforms, which will result in increased safety and transparency, the companies report.

“Rubicon’s mission is to end waste,” said Conor Riffle, senior vice president of smart cities at Rubicon. “Our mission refers to waste in the physical sense, but also to wasted time and, in the case of Rubicon’s smart city technology products, wasted government resources.

“This technology partnership with Samsara allows both companies to deliver a superior solution for city solid waste departments and fleets as a whole, while continuing to save tax-payer dollars.”