Rubicon forms partnership with Samsara Inc.

Rubicon Technologies Inc., a digital marketplace and provider of software-based products for the waste and recycling industry based in Lexington, Kentucky, has partnered with San Francisco-based Samsara Inc. to help its municipal customers.

Samsara offers Connected Operations Cloud, which is built to access, analyze and act on operations data. Data sharing on Samsara’s application programming interface provides customers with a single source to improve efficiency, reduce costs and maintain operations. Rubicon offers its RubiconSmartCity cloud-based technology suite to help municipal governments manage heavy-duty waste and recycling fleet operations.

According to a news release from Rubicon, RubiconSmartCity is now available on the Samsara App Marketplace to improve efficiency and sustainability in government fleets. Shared municipal customers will have access to fault codes, speeding, fuel level and GPS data, as well as visibility into vehicle diagnostics information to improve safety and transparency.

“With billions of data points flowing through Samsara each day, we’re able to act as a command center for customers to run every part of their municipal operations,” says Sean McGee, vice president of Platform and Infrastructure at Samsara. “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.”

Conor Riffle, senior vice president of Smart Cities at Rubicon, says Rubicon’s mission is to end waste, and he says this partnership helps to achieve that goal. He says, “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 taxpayer dollars.”