Video surveillance system with drone support

A surveillance system configured to provide surveillance of a surveillance area, the surveillance system comprising:

• a surveillance system controller;
• a plurality of fixed video cameras installed at fixed locations within the surveillance area, each of the plurality of fixed video cameras configured to capture and store a video stream corresponding to a field of view of the particular fixed video camera;
• a plurality of mobile security devices that are configured to fly, each of the plurality of mobile security devices comprises:
• a mobile video camera carried by the mobile security device;
• a memory carried by the mobile security device;
• a transceiver carried by the mobile security device;
• a controller carried by the mobile security device, the controller operably coupled to the mobile video camera of the mobile security device, the memory of the mobile security device and the transceiver of the mobile security device, wherein:
• the controller of the mobile security device is configured to receive instructions from the surveillance system controller to fly to a particular location at which an incident is believed to be occurring;
• the controller of the mobile security device is configured to instruct the mobile video camera of the mobile security device to capture video of the incident;
• the controller of the mobile security device is configured to determine which of the plurality of fixed video cameras meet predetermined criteria with respect to the incident, wherein the predetermined criteria include the fixed location of the fixed video cameras relative to the incident;
• the controller of the mobile security device is configured to solicit and receive via the transceiver of the mobile security device one or more video streams from the one or more of the plurality of fixed video cameras that are determined by the controller of the mobile security device to meet the predetermined criteria with respect to the incident, and store the one or more received video streams in the memory of the mobile security device;
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• the controller of the mobile security device is configured to provide the video captured by the mobile video camera of the mobile security device and at least one of the video streams from the one or more of the plurality of fixed video cameras that are determined by the controller of the mobile security device to meet the predetermined criteria with respect to the incident to the surveillance system controller.