Samsara’s 360-degree equipment-mounted camera builds safety directly into workflows

Samsara Inc. launched a new solution for further visibility into the field. Samsara Equipment and the Samsara 360 Camera is a duel-fisheye lese, 360-degree AI camera. Together, they bring AI safety and operational visibility organizations already use for their road fleets to the equipment working in demanding environments in physical operations. 

Frontline workers on construction sites, warehouses, mines, and in airports run excavators, forklifts, and pushbacks with open cabs — often within feet of coworkers and other equipment. Until now, none of that equipment had a camera system built for the job. Without footage from the ground, 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 & engineering at Samsara. "These machines have open cabs, no windshield, no roof, and hazards on every side. We built a camera tough enough to work in those conditions and see all the way around the operator, so customers can protect frontline workers on the warehouse floor, the job site, and the ramp the same way they do on the road."

A single camera to do the work of four 

Traditionally, 360-degree systems for equipment need four cameras, four mounts, and a separate recorder. The Samsara 360 Camera captures a full 360-degree view from a single mount point, and managers can pan and zoom through any recorded event to watch it from every angle. It installs like a Samsara 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, turns that footage into a safety program.

With the 360 Camera, 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 see which operators, sites, and equipment types show repeat risky behaviour. When something does happen, 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 coach operators on 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 this equipment out of the box, so a fault code can open a work order automatically. And instead of a separate OEM portal for every equipment brand, every vehicle, piece of equipment, and operator lives on one platform.