The invention discloses a wireless monitoring system for street lamps and belongs to the technical field of lighting devices. The wireless monitoring system comprises a monitoring center, a communication network, a TCP/IP, an intelligent terminal, a working power supply and a control power supply, wherein the intelligent terminal takes a microprocessor as a core, and adopts a micro signal processing technique to carry out full-isolation sampling through a current sensor, a voltage sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor and a visibility sensor, acquires, analyzes and processes data such as current, voltage, power and power factors on the site, transmits the data and controls the street lamps according to commands of a dispatching terminal, gives an audible and visual alarm when the faults happen on the site and transmits the alarm information to the monitoring center, so as to ensure the safe and normal operation of the system. The wireless monitoring system has the advantages that a wireless communication technology, an automatic control technology, sensors, a monitoring system networking technology, software, databases and a geographic information technology are integrated; meanwhile, and a stable, reliable and low-cost implementation scheme is provided for new building or improvement and upgrading of an urban street lamp lighting system.