Systems and methods for immersive and collaborative video surveillance

A method for monitoring a surveillance system of a facility having a plurality of surveillance devices including one or more access control devices, one or more intrusion detection devices and a plurality of video surveillance cameras, the method comprising:

• receiving a selection of one of the plurality of video surveillance cameras;
• receiving a video data stream captured by the selected video surveillance camera via a cloud network, wherein the selected video surveillance camera has a field of view that includes a corresponding monitored region of the facility;
• a first mobile device receiving the video data stream via the cloud network and displaying the video data stream to a first user;
• the first mobile device receiving a status of one or more of the plurality of surveillance devices and displaying the status of one or more of the plurality of surveillance devices to the first user;
• the first mobile device receiving a first user input from the first user that controls the display of the video data stream on the first mobile device;
• a second mobile device, remote from the first mobile device, receiving the video data stream via the cloud network and displaying at least part of the video data stream that is displayed on the first mobile device to a second user;
• the second mobile device receiving the status of one or more of the plurality of surveillance devices and displaying the status of one or more of the plurality of surveillance devices to the second user;
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• the first mobile device and the second mobile device transmitting and receiving communication signals via the cloud network to support communications between the first user of the first mobile device and a second user of the second mobile device to collaborate while investigating events observed in the video data stream.

A surveillance system having a plurality of surveillance devices including one or more access control devices, one or more intrusion detection devices and a plurality of video surveillance cameras, the system comprising:

• a primary mobile device;
• a secondary mobile device remote from the primary mobile device;
• wherein the primary mobile device receives via a cloud network at least part of a video data stream captured by a selected one of the plurality of video surveillance cameras located in a monitored region, and displays at least part of the received video data stream on the primary mobile device as well as a status of one or more of a plurality of surveillance devices;
• wherein the secondary mobile device receives via the cloud network at least part of the video data stream captured by the selected one of the plurality of video surveillance cameras and displays:
• at least part of the video data stream that is displayed on the primary mobile device in the same manner that the video data stream is displayed on the primary mobile device, resulting in a shared video data stream;
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• the status of the one or more of the plurality of surveillance devices;
• the primary mobile device and the secondary mobile device configured to transmit and receive communication signals to support communications between the primary user of the primary mobile device and a secondary user of the secondary mobile device to collaborate while investigating events observed in the shared video data stream.