200 for providing real time analytics on directly ingested ip camera video streams in accordance with an embodiment of the inventive arrangements disclosed herein in system 200 intelligent video surveillance system 240 can provide real time analysis of video stream 216 provided by directly connected ip camera 210 system 240 determining an incident event e g unattended object can respond by notifying alerting associated entities altering the state of cameras 210 and or surveillance system 210 as used herein ip cameras 210 can include cameras able to convey a video stream to an ivs system using one or more internet protocols the ivs system 240 can be one or more component systems lacking an intermediate video management system system 240 can be able to record monitor perform real time analytics and reporting on ip camera 210 streams real time analytics can encompass real time and near real time analysis of video streams ip camera 210 which can include volatile memory 212 and transceiver 214 can convey raw video stream 216 to ivs 240 video information received from camera 210 optics can be temporarily stored in volatile memory 212 prior to transmission transmission of video stream 216 to ivs 240 can.