Numerous monitoring applications such as traffic control systems, border patrol monitoring, and person locater services generate a large number of multimedia data streams that need to be analyzed and processed using image processing and data stream management techniques in order to detect significant events of interest or abnormal conditions. Such multimedia monitoring systems usually have high-bandwidth characteristics, stricter real-time deadlines, and high accuracy requirements. In an attempt to meet all of these requirements, we have designed Symbiote - a distributed Reconfigurable Logic Assisted multimedia Data Stream Management System (RLADSMS) at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) that provides hardware accelerated data stream processing using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).