Samsara Inc. has launched the Samsara 360 Camera, a dual-fisheye, 360-degree AI camera designed for equipment used in construction, warehousing, mining and airports. The company is pairing the camera with Samsara for Equipment, extending safety and operational visibility that it already offers for road fleets to excavators, forklifts and other machines in physical operations.
The target environment is unusually exposed. Frontline workers operate equipment with open cabs, often within feet of coworkers and other machinery, and the machines may have no windshield or roof. Samsara says the lack of ground-level footage has made incident investigations stall, left liability disputed and allowed the same unsafe behaviors to recur.
David Gal, vice president of product and engineering at Samsara, said the machines used by frontline workers have hazards on every side and are among the riskiest equipment in physical operations. According to Gal, the camera was built to withstand those conditions and see all the way around the operator, so customers can protect workers in warehouses, on job sites and on ramps in the same way they protect road fleets.
Conventional 360-degree systems for equipment typically require four cameras, four mounts and a separate recorder, according to Samsara. The new camera captures a full surround view from one mounting point. Managers can pan and zoom through recorded events to examine an incident from multiple angles, and the unit installs like a Samsara dash cam, the company says, with a housing intended to handle harsh weather and rough operating conditions.
Samsara AI, developed from nearly a decade of work on the company's AI dash cams, analyzes the footage for safety programs. The system can flag mobile phone use, camera obstruction, seat and lap belt use and harsh impacts, with detections trained on how equipment is actually operated. Managers can also see which operators, sites and equipment types show repeated risky behavior. When an impact occurs, video is automatically pulled into the Samsara Safety Inbox, giving investigators evidence rather than competing accounts.
The workflow extends beyond recording. Samsara says managers can coach operators using their own footage, enforce zero-tolerance mobile phone policies and speed up OSHA investigations without adding headcount. Timestamped video can support insurance claims and help establish or clear liability quickly. These are described as intended uses; the announcement does not provide customer results or third-party validation.
On the operational side, Samsara for Equipment combines the camera with equipment monitoring and Samsara agents on the same platform used for road fleets. Teams can track how long each forklift or excavator sits idle, schedule preventive maintenance based on engine hours rather than the calendar, and see 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. The platform is also meant to replace separate OEM portals for each equipment brand with one view of vehicles, equipment and operators.