The hardware challenge: Building the AI Multicam

Most of the intelligence in modern technology for physical operations lives in software. But the hardware underneath it (the devices actually mounted on vehicles, running in the heat and vibration of daily operations) is what makes any of it possible. Hardware is often the key interface that many of our customers actually interact with Samsara. And unlike software, you can't ship a hardware fix over the air.

The AI Multicam adds four AI-powered camera feeds to give large commercial vehicles (garbage trucks, school buses, construction equipment) full 360-degree visibility, with detections running on-device. In Episode 4 of our Object Stats podcast, CTO of Hardware & Operations Ben Calderon and Mechanical Engineer Marshall Haltom walk through what it took to build and ship it.

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When you're deploying hardware across thousands of vehicles in real operating conditions, the gap between 'works in the lab' and 'works in the field' is where the most interesting engineering happens. That's what building at Samsara looks like.

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