1. A smart camera, comprising: an imager; a video analytic engine (VA) coupled to the imager; an advanced video coding (AVC) engine coupled to the imager; and a network processor coupled to the VA engine and the AVC engine, wherein the VA engine and the AVC engine run on a graphic processing unit (GPU) having a plurality of processors to process a plurality of computing threads and wherein the imager and the GPU are enclosed in a camera housing, wherein the GPU generates metadata with the video to form content-aware video stored in a cloud data store, and the content-aware cloud data store includes video analytics that analyzes the content of the video data and local video data stores that store portions of the video data in response to analysis by the VA engine, and wherein video data is delivered as a managed amount of video data representing a specified quality level for a field of view.