Samsara Inc. has introduced a 360-degree AI camera for equipment that works away from the road, extending the safety and visibility tools it sells for vehicle fleets to machines operating on construction sites, in warehouses and mines, and at airports.
The offering combines two parts: Samsara Equipment and the Samsara 360 Camera, a dual-fisheye lens unit that captures a full surround view. According to the company, the pairing brings AI-based safety and operational visibility to equipment working in demanding environments, the same capability organisations already use on their road fleets.
The company frames the product around a gap at ground level. Frontline workers run excavators, forklifts and pushback tractors with open cabs, frequently within feet of coworkers and other equipment. Samsara says none of that equipment previously had a camera system built for the job, and that without footage from the ground, 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 machines have open cabs, no windshield, no roof and hazards on every side. He said the company built a camera tough enough to work in 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 airport ramp in the same way they do on the road.
One mount instead of four cameras
Conventional 360-degree systems for equipment need four cameras, four mounts and a separate recorder, the company says. The Samsara 360 Camera captures its full surround view from a single mounting point, and managers can pan and zoom through any recorded event to review it from every angle. It installs in the same way as a Samsara dash cam and is built to withstand harsh weather and rough operating conditions.
Samsara AI, which the company says is built on nearly a decade of its AI dash cam work, converts that footage into a safety programme.
- Seeing risk: AI detections flag mobile phone use, camera obstruction, seat and lap belt use, and harsh impacts, trained on how equipment is actually operated.
- Locating patterns: managers can see which operators, sites and equipment types show repeated risky behaviour. When an impact occurs, video is pulled automatically into the Samsara Safety Inbox, so investigations close on evidence rather than competing accounts.
- Acting on it: managers coach operators using their own footage, enforce zero-tolerance mobile phone policies and, per the company, speed up OSHA investigations without adding headcount. Timestamped footage is positioned as support for insurance claims and for establishing or clearing liability quickly.
Equipment data on the fleet platform
Samsara for Equipment puts equipment monitoring and Samsara agents on the same platform organisations use for their road fleets. Teams can see how long a forklift or excavator sits idling, schedule preventive maintenance against actual engine hours rather than the calendar, and check how many forklifts genuinely run at peak before buying more. Samsara says its agents work with this equipment out of the box, so a fault code can open a work order automatically. Rather than a separate OEM portal for each equipment brand, every vehicle, piece of equipment and operator sits on one platform.