Method and system for combined audio-visual surveillance

This monitoring system and method are disclosed for local monitoring. Audio module is connected to the transducer, for receiving an input audio signal, based on the acoustic signature that matches the input audio signal to detect a triggering event. And, the video module associated with the video camera receives the input video stream, and detects a triggering event corresponding to a video signal. An alarm signal is generated when the audio module and a video module to detect a triggering event.