Embedded systems continue to increase in power and complexity at an astonishing pace. There are few sectors that illustrate this more strongly than the Video Surveillance market. The capabilities of digital Network Cameras have now not only rendered their analogue counterparts obsolete, embedded applications running on the cameras themselves enable them to analyse scenarios in real time and act accordingly without requiring human inervention. When coupled to a back-end server infrastructure, the possibilities are limited only by the imagination of the System Architect.