Digital Surveillance Systems are developed out by maturity of computer technology. Its market position has been expanded from building managers, security service firms to the general public family. The functions of its software product are developed from simple to complex and become more elastic. In this study, a wireless mobile surveillance system is built using client-server architecture. Besides receiving real-time image and audio form a server, the mobile surveillance system can survey the historical data that can play the video forward, backward, stop the video and play the video in slower or higher than normal speed. It can also get dynamic IP address from a server, receive alarm message form a server, control remote PTZ functions, and save image in BMP or JPEG format files. Because of the unstable transmission over wireless networks, an auto-detect mechanism is designed to minimized the side effect.