Samsara Inc. has introduced the Samsara 360 Camera alongside Samsara for Equipment, pairing a dual-fisheye, 360-degree AI camera with equipment monitoring and agents on the same platform the company already provides for road fleets. The offering targets excavators, forklifts and other machines working in construction, warehousing, mining and airport operations.
According to Samsara, those machines typically run with open cabs, no windshield and no roof, often within feet of coworkers and other equipment. The company says equipment of this kind has not had a camera system built for the job, and that without ground-level footage incident investigations stalled, liability was disputed and the same unsafe behaviours could be repeated.
David Gal, vice president of product and engineering at Samsara, said the frontline workers who operate forklifts, excavators and ground equipment do some of the riskiest work in physical operations, on machines with open cabs, no windshield, no roof and hazards on every side. He said the camera was built to withstand those conditions and 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.
One mount instead of four
Samsara says conventional 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 mounting point, and managers can pan and zoom through any recorded event to review it from different angles. It installs in the manner of a Samsara dash cam and is described as built to withstand harsh weather and rough operating conditions.
The AI layer, which Samsara says draws on nearly a decade of its AI dash cam work, turns the footage into a safety programme. Detections flag mobile phone use, camera obstruction, seat and lap belt use, and harsh impacts, and are trained on how equipment is actually operated.
- Seeing risk: AI detections surface in-cab behaviour and impact events across every angle of the machine.
- Locating risk: managers can see which operators, sites and equipment types show repeat risky behaviour, and every impact automatically pulls video into the Samsara Safety Inbox so investigations rest on recorded evidence rather than competing accounts.
- Acting on risk: managers coach operators using their own footage, enforce zero-tolerance mobile phone policies and speed up OSHA investigations without adding headcount, while timestamped video supports insurance claims and helps establish or clear liability quickly.
On the operational side, Samsara for Equipment combines with the 360 Camera so 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 are described as working with this equipment out of the box, so a fault code can open a work order automatically. Instead of a separate OEM portal for each equipment brand, the company says every vehicle, piece of equipment and operator lives on one platform.
Samsara is based in San Francisco. The announcement did not include pricing, availability dates or independently verified performance results for the new camera.