Systems and methods are provided for dynamically controlling sensor-based data acquisition in vehicles. The disclosed embodiments may receive signals associated with sensors in a vehicle, wherein the signals are associated with sampling rates, and apply bandwidth filters to the signals to create filtered signals. The disclosed embodiments may also detect an occurrence of an event by comparing the filtered signals to one or more event thresholds and transmit event data to a control system when the event thresholds are exceeded. The disclosed embodiments also may dynamically adjust signals, sampling rates, bandwidth filters, a generated event score, and the event thresholds based on changes to a set of control variables. The control variables may depend on signals associated with a set of sensors in a vehicle or on boundary conditions and signals associated to an external system.