Samsara has launched Samsara Equipment and the Samsara 360 Camera, a dual-fisheye, 360-degree AI camera intended to extend the visibility the company already provides for road fleets to equipment used in physical operations.
The target environments are construction sites, warehouses, mines and airports, where frontline workers operate excavators, forklifts and pushbacks with open cabs. Those machines often work within feet of coworkers and other equipment, and according to Samsara, none had a camera system built for the job. Without footage from the ground, incident investigations stalled, liability was disputed and unsafe behaviors could be repeated.
David Gal, vice president of product and engineering at Samsara, said frontline workers operating forklifts, excavators and ground equipment do some of the riskiest work in physical operations. He described the machines as having open cabs, no windshield, no roof and hazards on every side, and said Samsara built a camera tough enough for those conditions and able to see all the way around the operator. The goal, he said, is to help customers protect workers on the warehouse floor, job site and ramp in the same way they do on the road.
Conventional 360-degree equipment systems require four cameras, four mounts and a separate recorder, according to the company. The Samsara 360 Camera is designed to capture a full 360-degree view from a single mount point. Managers can pan and zoom through any recorded event to view it from every angle. Samsara says the unit installs like its dash cam and is built to withstand harsh weather and rough operating conditions.
Samsara AI, built on nearly a decade of Samsara AI Dash Cams, is intended to turn that footage into a safety program. The company lists several capabilities:
- 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 repeat risky behavior. When an impact occurs, video is automatically pulled into the Samsara Safety Inbox so investigations can close on evidence rather than 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.
Samsara for Equipment combines with 360 Camera equipment monitoring and 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 agents work with the equipment out of the box, so a fault code can open a work order automatically. Instead of a separate OEM portal for every equipment brand, every vehicle, piece of equipment and operator lives on one platform.