System and method for configuring surveillance cameras using mobile computing devices

A surveillance camera system, comprising:

• a cloud image data storage system that enables storage to and access to dedicated storage for organizations that own surveillance camera systems in the cloud image data storage system;
• user devices on which configuration images are displayed;
• surveillance cameras for premises for generating image data of the user devices on which the configuration images are displayed;
• and
• a registration server maintaining user accounts for the organizations that own the surveillance camera systems, sending the configuration images to the user devices when the surveillance cameras are triggered to enter into a configuration mode, receiving the image data from the surveillance cameras, deriving the configuration images from the image data, pairing configuration information from the user devices with corresponding surveillance cameras, associating the surveillance cameras with the user account for the organization owning the premises, and enabling data from the surveillance cameras to be stored to the cloud storage system after registration of the surveillance cameras by reference to the configuration images;
• wherein storage is allocated in the cloud image data storage system for the surveillance cameras, the surveillance cameras receive path information to the allocated storage in the cloud image data storage system, and the surveillance cameras then store image data to the allocated storage in the cloud image data storage system.