Samsara Inc. has launched the Samsara 360 Camera, a dual-fisheye-lens, 360-degree AI camera, together with Samsara Equipment, an offering that extends the AI safety and operational visibility the company already sells for road fleets to machines working in construction, warehousing, mining and airports.
The company says frontline workers operating excavators, forklifts and pushbacks with open cabs often work within feet of coworkers and other equipment, and that until now none of that equipment had a camera system built for the job. Without footage from the ground, Samsara says, incident investigations stalled, liability was disputed and the same unsafe behaviours could be repeated.
One mount instead of four
Conventional 360-degree systems for equipment require four cameras, four mounts and a separate recorder, according to Samsara. The 360 Camera captures a full surround view from a single mount point, and managers can pan and zoom through any recorded event to review it from every angle. The unit installs like a Samsara dash cam and is built to withstand harsh weather and rough operating conditions.
Detections tuned to equipment
Samsara AI, which the company says is built on nearly a decade of Samsara AI Dash Cams, turns that footage into a safety programme. The detections, Samsara says, are trained on how equipment is actually operated.
- Spot risk from any angle: AI detections flag mobile phone use, camera obstruction, seat and lap belt use and harsh impacts.
- See where risk concentrates: managers can identify which operators, sites and equipment types show repeat risky behaviour, and every impact automatically pulls video into the Samsara Safety Inbox so investigations close on evidence rather than competing accounts.
- Act before it repeats: managers coach operators using their own footage, enforce zero-tolerance mobile phone policies and speed up OSHA investigations without adding headcount; timestamped video is positioned as support for insurance claims and for establishing or clearing liability quickly.
Equipment data on the same platform
Samsara for Equipment combines with the 360 Camera and with Samsara agents on the same platform customers use for their road fleets. 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. The agents work with the equipment out of the box, so a fault code can open a work order automatically, and vehicles, equipment and operators sit on one platform instead of a separate OEM portal for every equipment brand.
Company position
"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, no roof and hazards on every side, and that the camera was built tough enough to see all the way around the operator so customers can protect frontline workers on the warehouse floor, the job site and the ramp in the same way they do on the road.
The announcement did not include pricing, a commercial availability date or independent performance data; the safety, investigation and maintenance benefits described are the company's own claims about the new products.