The invention belongs to the technical field of traffic tunnel engineering and particularly provides a tunnel cloud monitoring system and method based on the Internet of Things. The system comprises atunnel monitoring module, a data acquisition module and a cloud terminal. The tunnel monitoring module acquires comprehensive information in a tunnel in real time, the data acquisition module acquires the comprehensive information, processes the comprehensive information to obtain digitized information and transmits the digitized information to a server, and the cloud terminal stores and displaysthe digitized information in a classified mode. The scheme is easy to install and implement, the digitization, networking and clouding of tunnel information are realized, the data interaction is faster, the throughput is larger, a user can use the system conveniently and securely, the data sharing and tunnel big data accumulation and analysis can be achieved, a big database is upgraded by continuously expanding data of a tunnel Internet of Things cloud terminal, namely joining into the tunnel of the Internet of Things, common problems of the tunnel can be extracted, faults can be recognized intelligently, and operation and maintenance messages are pushed.