Canon USA Inc.'s VB-C500VD Vandal Resistant Fixed Mini-Dome Network Camera is designed with features to make it ideally suited for any location where a fixed indoor security camera is needed and may be susceptible to vandalism or tampering. The camera features the supplier's new Multi-Directional Shock Absorber, a four-spring mechanism designed to protect the camera by lessening the effects of impact from various angles. Other features include a high-sensitivity progressive-scan CCD, an advanced image processor and the supplier's DIGIC NET processor. The high-sensitivity progressive-scan CCD captures sharply defined, color-accurate motion video in either Motion-JPEG (M-JPEG) or MPEG-4 for remote monitoring over IP.The Canon VB-C500VD is designed with special advanced features to make it ideally suited for any location where a fixed indoor security camera is needed and may be susceptible to vandalism or tampering, such as in shopping malls, educational institutions, businesses and banking environments.