The invention discloses vehicle-mounted engineering machinery remote wireless data collection and monitoring system and a method. An analogue value, a switching value, a frequency value, a RS-232 interface, a CAN bus interface, a global positioning system (GPS) module, a power module, a real-time clock, an external expanding memory, a programming and debugging module and a general packet radio service (GPRS) communication module in a data collection device are respectively connected with a microcontroller; a control input module, a data communication module, a database storage processing module and a data display module are respectively connected with a data controller in a data monitoring device; and a GPRS communication module of the data collection device is connected with the data communication module of the data monitoring device in a wireless mode through transmission control protocol (TCP) data communication protocol. The system has rich and varied data collection channels, data collection storage, data collection transmission and the period can be remotely configured, local storage data of the data collection device can be remotely extracted, the collected data can be ensured not to lose when a wireless communication network is unawailable. The invention is suitable for vehicle-mounted engineering machinery remoter wireless data collection and monitoring.