Building a safer and more sustainable world

Samsara's 2024 Impact Report

Table of Contents

A message from CEO and Co-Founder, Sanjit Biswas

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Guiding principles

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Transforming customer operations to drive impact

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Operating sustainably

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Employee and community impact

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Privacy, ethics, and governance

A message from CEO and

Co-Founder, Sanjit Biswas

Samsara's mission is to improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. Our customers represent the industries that drive more than 40% of the global GDP and keep the world running. As you'll read in this year's report, they are also using our platform to reinvent their operations to be safer and more sustainable.

Samsara has become the single platform for connecting physical operations. As the strategic partner to the world's leading and most complex physical operations organizations, we offer a unified view to help our customers achieve their sustainability goals and create safer operations for their workers and communities. Our Connected Operations Cloud provides visibility across their operations, including key safety metrics, carbon emissions and electric vehicle (EV) fleet data, and insights into ways to reduce fuel, energy, paper, and food waste. This allows our customers to improve the most critical areas based on real-time analysis and insights, and expand their impact.

I always enjoy spending time with our customers. Since our last report, I've spent hundreds of hours discussing safety and sustainability priorities with customers around the world. While each of their operations and goals are unique, data is universally important for making progress. For example, many of our customers are investing in understanding and reducing their Scope 1 and 2 emissions. This is increasingly important as their own customers are asking for this data for their own reporting. By having the ability to transparently track and report these emissions, these organizations can better understand their carbon footprint and reduce it more accurately and effectively, and share key metrics with their stakeholders for their reporting. An additional way our customers are using Samsara to reduce their environmental footprint is through their transition to EVs. We help our customers with every phase of their fleet electrification journey by using data to drive change management and make better and more informed decisions, from their vehicle transition strategy to charge control and routing and dispatch.

Our customers are also using Samsara to make the roads and their workplaces safer. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations proactively monitor and manage risks to improve driver and worker safety. These data-driven decisions are helping our customers improve their safety programs, giving them a competitive edge and saving lives. In fact, we estimate that together with our customers, we helped prevent more than 200k crashes in one year alone. This means safer roads for our customers and communities.

At Samsara, we are committed to building a more sustainable and safer world. Like our customers, we are using a data-driven approach to help us achieve our ambitious goals and understand where we can make the greatest impact. One area that excites me is our own sustainability journey. We have committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040 with the Science Based Targets

initiative (SBTi). Our near-term focus is on reducing emissions by working closely with our key suppliers. We are also partnering with other early pioneers to invest in high-impact clean energy and

engineering-focused carbon removal technologies. This includes a virtual power purchase

agreement (VPPA) and initiatives like Frontierthat help increase supply of high-integrity carbon removal credits.

Following the guiding principles of transparency and impact, our latest report provides an update on our progress. We are proud of what we've accomplished so far and are eager to make more of an impact in the coming years. Thank you for your interest and collaboration as we continue to build for the long-term. And as always, we welcome your feedback.

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Guiding principles:

Transparency and accountability

Data-driven solutions

Empowering our people and communities

The past several months have been a landmark period for climate regulation and transparency. Samsara embraces this increased regulatory focus and much needed standardization in sustainability reporting. As our customers set sustainability goals, our platform provides them with the tools they need to take control of their data, reduce their emissions, and improve operational efficiency.

In today's evolving landscape of priorities and disclosure requirements, we continue to recognize the importance of providing our stakeholders with clear and comprehensive information about our commitments. In this edition of our report, we continue to adhere to our guiding principles of transparency and accountability, data-driven decision making, and empowerment of our people and communities.

Transparency and accountability

Transparency and accountability are crucial building blocks to achieving progress. Providing a comprehensive understanding of what we are doing well and where we need to improve helps us stay accountable and focused on achieving our goals.

This edition of our report highlights our ongoing commitment to providing insight into our progress toward our environmental goals and positive social impact. We disclose our fiscal year 2024 emissions, continued investment in innovative, high-impact carbon offset projects, and future commitments that hold us accountable.

Data-driven solutions

Samsara is a results-driven organization. Data helps us set transparent and measurable goals, report on progress, and recognize achievements. We measure our existing benchmarks and identify opportunities to enhance our operations. Data also allows us to be more consistent and efficient when making decisions. For example, our logistics data provided insights on how much air transport we should transfer to sea transport in order to significantly reduce the carbon footprint associated with shipping our products, while still efficiently fulfilling our customer orders. In the same way that we help our customers gain visibility into their operations, we use data to improve our operations and enhance our community of vendors, suppliers, and business partners.

Empowering our people and communities

Samsara fosters an inclusive work environment where employees are empowered to make an impact on our team members, customers, and communities. We welcome our team members' diverse perspectives because this powers a healthy society. Samsara strives to create a safe work environment where employees can thrive, benefiting from workplace programs, including professional development resources and generous leave policies, as well as opportunities to meaningfully contribute to the communities in which we live and work.

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Transforming customer operations to drive impact

We're focused on helping customers improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of their operations. Our customers play an essential role in the lives of millions of people everywhere and are the bedrock of every community-even small operational improvements can have substantial impacts on the greater environment and our well-being.

In the past year, inflation, high fuel prices, and labor shortages have challenged leaders in physical operations. Many of their workers endure hazardous conditions for timely deliveries, energy production, and infrastructure maintenance-important work that benefits us all. Our customers are dedicated to improving safety and sustainability outcomes and recognize the impact that doing so has on their employees, communities, and bottom line.

Samsara offers a unified view to help customers address their biggest challenges. Our solutions support emissions reduction, recommend sustainable practices, and help ensure safer operations for workers and communities. By integrating data from IoT devices and third-party systems, Samsara has become the single platform for connecting physical operations. Our customer feedback loop has guided multiple product innovations, from EV fleet management to AI-powered driver safety, that make it possible for organizations to progress their safety and sustainability goals in new ways. Samsara enables vital decisions that lead to more sustainable operations, safer jobs, and significant cost reductions.

At Samsara, we help solve some of the biggest challenges facing the people who operate our planet's infrastructure. Customer feedback fuels our innovation, and we're committed to helping them be safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.

Kiren Sekar

Chief Product Officer, Samsara

Volume and breadth of Samsara

The Single Platform for

Connecting Physical Operations*

9T+

data points processed

75B+

API calls

230M+

workflows digitized

60B+

miles driven

*Stats for our fiscal year ended

February 3, 2024 (FY24)

Reducing environmental footprints

Regulatory and public pressure to report on and reduce emissions is increasing as end customers, investors, and employees demand organizations prioritize sustainable practices. In fact, 69% of employeesreport that they want their companies to invest in sustainability efforts, including reducing carbon emissions, using renewable energy, and reducing waste. In response, organizations across the globe are declaring net-zero targets, sharing progress in annual reports, and scaling sustainability plans.

Achieving substantial reductions in fleet carbon emissions hinges on the availability of accurate, centralized data on fuel consumption, energy usage, and driver behavior. Samsara provides precise data and integrated solutions, empowering organizations to make informed sustainability decisions and drive meaningful environmental progress.

As people inquire about Veritiv, they ask about sustainability and what our company is doing to reduce our carbon footprint, especially with big fleets. That's why Veritiv is so transparent about the initiatives we're taking-because our drivers care, our employees care, and we care.

Will Vining

Senior Director, Supply Chain Optimization, Veritiv Corporation

Tracking fleet carbon emissions

Today, one-quarterof all greenhouse gas emissions are produced by the transportation sector, making reducing Scope 1 emissions a priority for fleets. We help customers monitor and take action on their emissions through rich data visualizations and robust dashboards.

Samsara's Sustainability Report

Customers can monitor emissions output across their fleet by visualizing current and predicted outputs to pinpoint improvement opportunities and track progress towards goals.

Using Samsara is allowing us to have more environmentally friendly operations. If we can't monitor our impact, we can't change it. Understanding our footprint, entirely through telematics and tracking in the technology, is making a big difference.

Edward Martin

Head of Fleet Compliance, JJX Logistics

Reducing fuel consumption

Vehicle idling wastes over 6B gallons of fuel annuallyand is a significant contributor to emissions. Fleets today are setting aggressive idling reduction targets to save on fuel spend and scale back their Scope 1 emissions. With the Idling Report and real-time alerts, we empower customers to track and reduce excessive vehicle idling to meet their goals.

Inefficient driving behaviors also cause unnecessary fuel burn. Customers can overcome this challenge by identifying and coaching drivers on fuel-saving habits using the Driver Efficiency Report and intuitive Driver App. Empowered with their own data, drivers can follow their efficiency progress and self- manage areas for improvement.

Using insights from Samsara, Sobeysreported it saved 46k gallons of diesel in four months.

Transitioning to electric vehicles

Electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions and the expanding availability of EVs increases the opportunity for swift adoption among fleets. According to the 2023 State of Connected Operations Report, EV adoption will continue to rise in the coming years with industry leaders predicting more than half (53%) of their organizations' fleet vehicles will be electric or hybrid by 2025.

Effective fleet electrification requires a comprehensive strategy that considers vehicle selection, charge management, and optimized routing and dispatch-alongside training and change management initiatives. To accelerate adoption, access to reliable fleet and vehicle data is critical to making informed decisions on fleet electrification.

The City of Boston increased EV miles driven by 36%. The City also uses data from Samsara to overcome range anxiety.

The ability to see and track EV battery levels with Samsara has been great for us.

Matthew Bradley

Superintendent of Automotive Maintenance, City of Boston

Accelerating fleet electrification

A critical part of transitioning to EVs is to determine which vehicles are best suited for electrification. Several factors such as emissions output, maintenance costs, and total cost of ownership affect a vehicle's candidacy for EV replacement. Charge control is another top priority for fleets transitioning to EVs. We help customers address EV-specificconcerns-such as range anxiety-and identify what EVs to charge and when.

Samsara's EV Suitability Report

This report displays vehicles best suited for electrification. The report uses criteria such as lifetime usage, average MPG, average daily range, estimated emissions savings, and more to help customers prioritize replacement of their internal combustion (ICE) vehicles.

Reducing waste

Organizations within the world of physical operations have the potential to produce a significant amount of waste every day due to inefficiencies caused by manual processes. Paper-based tasks and reporting result in time-consuming and error-prone documentation while food waste from improper transit conditions impacts both the bottom line and the environment. Samsara helps customers reduce their reliance on paper and maintain their perishable products' integrity-saving time and effort in the process.

Removing paper processes

Essential activities such as vehicle and equipment inspections, Hours of Service logging, reporting, service and delivery documentation, and more can be a tremendous challenge and source of waste for organizations that still use pen and paper to complete these activities. We help customers save thousands of pieces of paper and hours through rich customizable reporting, mobile workflows, and intuitive applications for workers and drivers.

Samsara's Connected Forms

Connected Forms enables customers to easily create digital forms and templates like inspections, checklists, audits and reports, empowering customers to simplify workers' days while also eliminating paper waste.

By going paperless, Samsara gives us more time to get out into the field, instead of being behind a desk filing paperwork.

Rusty McClain

Assistant General Superintendent,Road Commission of Kalamazoo County

Reducing environmental waste

Transporting temperature-sensitive goods requires consistent monitoring to ensure product integrity- even small temperature fluctuations can put an entire load at risk for spoilage. By moving from manual check-ins to proactive remote monitoring, fleets can get ahead of temperature-related issues before they lead to waste. Real-time temperature monitoring and Samsara's Smart Trailer solution help customers reduce chemical, food, and product waste by ensuring temperature control and product integrity from anywhere.

By building a temperature monitoring alert system with Samsara's Solutions Integration Services team, Aegionreported it is avoiding over $6M in annual costs and material due to high-temperature events.

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