The invention discloses an energy-saving transmission self-adaption recursive least squares (RLS) distributed-type detection method of a wireless sensor network. Through the updating process of an increment of a distributed-type RLS weight number, the situation that measurement data of all-network nodes are utilized to train the distributed-type RLS weight number of a medium bridge of a bridge node set is achieved, convergence performance of an RLS algorithm is ensured, and the convergence performance is equivalent with that of an existing all-network distributed-type RLS algorithm. Distributed-type RLS weight number estimation is conducted on bridge nodes, adjacent transmission of the weight number is conducted on a sub-network of the bridge nodes, transmission updating of the weight number is achieved, and distributed-type detection is achieved. The energy-saving transmission self-adaption RLS distributed-type detection method of the wireless sensor network has the advantages that all-network parameter calculation and transmission in the prior art are avoided, communication traffic and node operation quantity are reduced, energy consumption is saved, and stability is high. In addition, the RLS weight number is calculated on the bridge nodes, all-network node data information is utilized, and performance of the algorithm is ensured. Under conditions of less energy consumption and lower network communication traffic, all-network detection performance can be achieved, and performance of the wireless sensor network is improved.