Mobile video is providing opportunities to use surveillance in new ways and is seeing exceptional marketplace adoption from a whole new group of users. Mobility is fundamentally changing how customers interact with their video systems. It is extending back-room systems into the hands of a new user and those users are inventing ways to use video for both security and business operations. With a relatively small investment, the existing video infrastructure can be put into more hands, driving even larger returns on investment. Mobile technology is an exciting enabler but implementations need to be approached with these five key essentials in mind.