Company: IOT
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001642896-25-000022
Chunk: 69

Company: Samsara Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 69
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 The United States and other countries have enacted regulations related to ELDs and HOS or similar requirements, and some of our customers use our solution to comply with such regulations. Failure to comply ourselves, to enable such compliance by our customers, or to obtain and maintain any required certifications would prevent current and potential customers from using our solution for such compliance purposes and would have an adverse impact on our ability to renew and sell subscriptions to our solution, our business reputation, and our customer relationships. For example, in the United States, to the extent our Applications and/or IoT devices function as ELDs, they are subject to regulation by the FMCSA and similar regulations in other countries in which they are used. The FMCSA requires that ELD manufacturers register and self-certify that each ELD model and version they offer for sale has been sufficiently tested to meet certain functional requirements. Among other challenges, compliance with ELD regulations often requires reading and interpreting diagnostic information from commercial motor vehicle engines, which is challenging given the diversity of commercial motor vehicles in our customers’ fleets, the continuous release of vehicles of new makes, models, and years with potentially different diagnostic communication protocols, and the lack of standardization of diagnostic communication protocols across OEMs. Our ability to design, develop, and sell subscriptions to our solution will continue to be subject to these rules and regulations, as well as many other federal, state, local, and foreign rules and regulations, for the foreseeable future. For example, from time to time, we have received and expect to continue to receive inquiries from FMCSA relating to our self-certified ELD Application in the United States. These inquiries could put our self-certification of our ELD Application at risk or require changes to our ELD functionality that could make our ELD Application less desirable to existing and potential customers. Further, as another example, on January 1, 2023, Canada began enforcement of its ELD technical standard, mandating that motor carriers and drivers subject to HOS requirements in Canada use ELDs that have been tested and certified by an accredited, third-party certification body. We have obtained certification for all of our ELD models in Canada. However, failure to obtain certification for future ELD models, or to maintain the existing certification for our certified ELD models, would prevent current and potential customers from using our ELD Application for compliance purposes in Canada and could negatively impact the reputation and goodwill of our ELD offering in the United States. Furthermore, our solution may transmit radio frequency waves, the