Samsara Inc. has introduced the Samsara 360 Camera, a dual-fisheye, 360-degree AI camera, together with Samsara 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 such as construction, warehousing, mining and airports.
The company said frontline workers in those settings run excavators, forklifts and other equipment with open cabs, often within feet of coworkers and other machines, and that until now none of that equipment had a camera system built for the job. Without footage from the ground, Samsara said, incident investigations stalled, liability was disputed and the same unsafe behaviors could be repeated.
Traditional 360-degree systems for equipment typically require four cameras, four mounts and a separate recorder, according to the company. 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 watch it from every angle. Samsara said the unit installs like its dash cameras 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. "These machines have open cabs, no windshield, no roof, and hazards on every side. We built a camera tough enough 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."
AI detections feeding a safety workflow
Samsara said its AI, built on nearly a decade of Samsara AI Dash Cam development, turns the footage into a safety program. Its detections flag mobile phone use, camera obstruction, seat and lap belt use and harsh impacts, trained on how equipment is actually operated, according to the company.
Managers can see which operators, sites and equipment types show repeat risky behavior. When an impact occurs, video is pulled automatically into the Samsara Safety Inbox, which the company says lets investigations close on evidence instead of competing accounts. Supervisors can coach operators using their own footage, enforce zero-tolerance mobile phone policies and speed up OSHA investigations without adding headcount. Timestamped footage is also positioned as support for insurance claims and for establishing or clearing liability quickly.
Combined with equipment monitoring
Samsara for Equipment runs on the same platform organizations use for their road fleets, alongside the 360 Camera and Samsara's agents. Teams can see how long each forklift or excavator sits idling, schedule preventive maintenance on actual engine hours rather than the calendar, and check how many forklifts actually run at peak before buying more. Samsara agents work with the equipment out of the box, so a fault code can open a work order automatically, and every vehicle, piece of equipment and operator lives on one platform rather than a separate OEM portal for each brand, the company said.