This older bus was soon to be replaced, so the customer asked us to keep all cables surface-mounted so they could easily move them from this bus to the new one in 6 months. Professional school bus video or vehicle camera mounted without cables, preventing children from tampering. STC & BTC school bus cameras are true vandal-resistant cameras that won't crush like eggshells when struck with a child's fist or shoe. Disposable plastic or eggshell-thin sheet metal cameras are a poor substitute for true vandal-resistant cameras.

The BTC metal shell cameras we offer for pupil transportation and student transport markets are the same cameras that are incorporated into the vandalism- and abuse-prone police patrol wagon suspect, prisoner, and Department of Corrections inmate in-custody transport camera systems we provide for law enforcement applications.

Notice the IR LEDs are built in, as is the microphone, so there are no loose parts hanging off the camera that could fail or pose a hazard to the child, just an all-metal, rounded case. These cameras have a near-perfect service record in the Private Service Contractor Charter Transport Compliance Bus Camera Systems markets, with an insignificant number of failures since they are 100% solid state and enclosed in an armored metal shell to protect them from vandalism.

While some applications are not as prone ot violent abuse from the passengers like the Special Needs Wheelchair School Bus Video Surveillance Camera Systems, it is still a good idea to require a vandal-resistant metal shell over the plastic crap cameras being offered by some that may not survive a single strike.