Samsara Inc. has launched the Samsara 360 Camera, a dual-fisheye-lens, 360-degree AI camera, alongside Samsara for Equipment, a combination the company says extends the AI safety and operational visibility it already provides for road fleets to machines working in demanding physical operations.
The company points to construction sites, warehouses, mines and airports, where frontline workers run excavators, forklifts and pushback equipment with open cabs, often within feet of co-workers and other machines. According to Samsara, none of that equipment had a camera system built for the job until now. Without footage from the ground, the company says, incident investigations stalled, liability was disputed and the same unsafe behaviors could be repeated.
One mount instead of four
Traditional 360-degree systems for equipment require four cameras, four mounts and a separate recorder. The Samsara 360 Camera captures a full 360-degree view from a single mount point, and managers can pan and zoom through any recorded event to review it from every angle. It installs in the same way as a Samsara dash cam and is built to withstand harsh weather and rough operating conditions.
"The frontline workers operating forklifts, excavators and ground equipment do some of the riskiest work in physical operations," said David Gal, vice president of product and engineering at Samsara. He said such machines have open cabs, no windshield, no roof and hazards on every side, and that the camera was built to work in those conditions and see all the way around the operator, so customers can protect frontline workers on the warehouse floor, the job site and the ramp the same way they do on the road.
What the AI flags
Samsara AI, built on nearly a decade of Samsara AI Dash Cams, turns that footage into a safety program. According to the company, teams can:
- See every angle of risk, with AI detections flagging mobile phone use, camera obstruction, seat and lap belt use and harsh impacts, trained on how equipment is actually operated.
- Understand where risks are happening, with managers able to see which operators, sites and equipment types show repeated risky behavior; when an impact occurs, video is pulled automatically into the Samsara Safety Inbox so investigations close on evidence rather than competing accounts.
- Act before it happens again, by coaching operators on their own footage, enforcing zero-tolerance mobile phone policies and speeding up OSHA investigations without adding headcount; timestamped footage also supports insurance claims and helps establish or clear liability quickly.
Equipment data on the fleet platform
Samsara for Equipment combines with the 360 Camera, equipment monitoring and agents on the same platform organizations use for their road fleets. Samsara says teams can see how long each forklift or excavator sits idling, schedule preventive maintenance on actual engine hours rather than the calendar, and see how many forklifts actually run at peak before buying more. The agents work with the equipment out of the box, so a fault code can open a work order automatically. Instead of a separate OEM portal for every equipment brand, the company says every vehicle, piece of equipment and operator lives on one platform.