Samsara Inc. has introduced the Samsara 360 Camera and Samsara for Equipment, a dual-fisheye, 360-degree AI camera paired with equipment monitoring that the company says brings the safety and operational visibility used on road fleets to machines working in construction, warehousing, mining and airport operations.
According to Samsara, frontline workers operating excavators, forklifts and other open-cab equipment often work within feet of co-workers and other machines, and until now that equipment had no camera system built for the job. Without footage from the ground, the company said, incident investigations stalled, liability was disputed and the same unsafe behaviours could be repeated.
"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 these machines have open cabs, no windshield and no roof, with hazards on every side, and that the camera was built to withstand those conditions and see all the way around the operator so customers can protect workers on the warehouse floor, the job site and the ramp as they do on the road.
Single mount replaces four-camera setups
Samsara said conventional 360-degree systems for equipment require four cameras, four mounts and a separate recorder. The 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 like a Samsara dash cam and is built to withstand harsh weather and rough operating conditions.
AI turns footage into a safety program
Samsara AI, which the company says is built on nearly a decade of Samsara AI Dash Cams, is applied to that footage. According to Samsara, teams can:
- See every angle of risk: AI detections flag 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: managers can see which operators, sites and equipment types show repeated risky behaviour, and every impact automatically pulls video into the Samsara Safety Inbox so investigations close on evidence instead of competing accounts.
- Act before it happens again: managers can coach operators using their own footage, enforce zero-tolerance mobile phone policies and speed up OSHA investigations without adding headcount; timestamped footage supports insurance claims and helps establish or clear liability quickly.
Shared platform with fleet data
Samsara for Equipment combines with the 360 Camera, equipment monitoring and Samsara agents on the same platform organizations use for their road fleets. Teams can see how long each forklift or excavator sits idling, schedule preventive maintenance on actual engine hours instead of the calendar, and see how many forklifts actually run at peak before buying more. Samsara said its agents work with this equipment out of the box, so a fault code can open a work order automatically, and that instead of a separate OEM portal for every equipment brand, every vehicle, piece of equipment and operator lives on one platform.