Case Study: County of Santa Barbara achieves 3–4 hours saved per audit and 50% less theft with Samsara Site Visibility

How the County of Santa Barbara saves time & costs with Site Visibility

The County of Santa Barbara Public Works Department, responsible for monitoring 17 sites, struggled with a legacy DVR-based camera system that made investigating theft, fraud, and illegal dumping slow and unreliable. Staff were spending hours trawling disconnected footage when they needed high-quality, chronological views from all angles to audit transactions and support county goals to improve efficiency and move data to the cloud.

By deploying Samsara Site Visibility to consolidate third‑party and high‑resolution Samsara cameras into a single cloud dashboard, the County can use AI-driven features like clothing detection, stream search, and easy clip saving/sharing to accelerate investigations. The solution saves three to four hours per audit incident (about a quarter of an FTE), cut the likelihood of theft by 50%, and broadened data access across the IT department.

County of Santa Barbara

Larry Lowman

IT Manager