Methods and apparatus for determining patterns of presence and ownership of mobile devices by integrating video surveillance with smartphone WiFi monitoring

A surveillance system that integrates receiving, storage and analysis of wireless probes from mobile device, with video surveillance, for the purpose of detecting the presence, and patterns of presence, of machines and especially, persons whose identities are known or unknown, and assisting in the identification of those machines and persons, comprising:

• a) a processing device having a storage system, able to store and retrieve information, communicate via a network, receive, process and store wireless probes from mobile devices, prepare messages with (1) information from one or more wireless probes, each probe containing a MAC address identifying the mobile device that sent the probe, (2) a time code indicative of the time of transmission of each probe, (3) information identifying the processing device, (4) a URL of a video-aware portal, and (5) one or more links to video from one or more cameras that can be accessed via said video-aware portal, each link having a time code indicative of when a probe was transmitted, and send said messages to one or more recipients who have computing devices able to display web pages with text and images, and
• b) one or more cameras, each able to view at least a portion of a area from which wireless probes are received by one or more processing device, and communicate via a network, and
• c) the video-aware portal having a storage system able to store and retrieve information, and having the ability to execute program, and communicate via a network, where said video-aware portal is able to identify the processing device and obtain information from that processing device when a recipient clicks a link in a message from said processing device, and format and present a web page tailored for that processing device, select and present information relevant to that processing device, access one or more images from one or more cameras and present said image in said webpage, when a recipient of a message from the processing device clicks a link in the message.