System and method for using mobile device of zone and correlated motion detection

A method for determining relationships between fields of views of surveillance cameras, the method comprising:

• a mobile user device receiving image data from the surveillance cameras and defining a path within an area monitored by the surveillance cameras;
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• the mobile user device analyzing the image data to determine the relationships between the fields of views of the surveillance cameras by correlating motion among the image data during the defining of the path and determining whether an operator of the mobile user device is included in the image data from at least one of the surveillance cameras for determining deadzones between the surveillance cameras,
• wherein the mobile user device executes a user app that sends pairing requests to the surveillance cameras to establish a communications session with each of the surveillance cameras and presents user interface buttons on a screen of the mobile user device to start and stop definition of the path within the area monitored, and in response to selection of one of the user interface buttons on the user interface of the user app by the operator, the user app starts a local timer and sends an instruction to the surveillance cameras to indicate start of definition of the path and collects position information as the user device is moved along the path.