The invention discloses a wireless-network-based water gate security monitoring system, belonging to the field of security monitoring of water transport engineering. The wireless-network-based water gate security monitoring system comprises a data acquisition system, a data transmission system and a remote monitoring scheduling system, wherein the data acquisition system comprises a parameter acquisition node, a video acquisition node, a route node and a coordinator node, and the remote monitoring scheduling system comprises a database server system and a monitoring scheduling center. According to the invention, a wireless acquisition technology and a wireless transmission technology are adopted to carry out acquisition, transmission, processing, display, control and other operation on environment parameters, structural parameters and video data of a water gate, and a gate is opened and closed according to an operating instruction. According to the invention, a wireless sensor network technology, a third generation wireless communication technology and a video monitoring technology are applied to water gate management, all the operations from information acquisition, transmission and storage to information processing are carried out in digital information image forms, and thus, the efficiency and the security in water gate management are greatly increased.