The invention discloses an online monitoring system for a high-tension transmission line based on a wireless sensor network. The online monitoring system comprises a conductor temperature monitoring terminal, a meteorological environment monitoring terminal, a circuit data collection terminal, a conductor sag monitoring terminal, the wireless sensor network, a circuit monitoring base station, a database terminal, a background monitoring center station and an alarm terminal module, wherein the circuit data collection terminal is used for collecting data information of the conductor temperature monitoring terminal, the meteorological environment monitoring terminal and the conductor sag monitoring terminal, transmitting the data information to the circuit monitoring base station through the wireless sensor network based on a Zigbee protocol, and transmitting the data information to the background monitoring center station through a GPRS (general packet radio service) network; the background monitoring center station is used for storing the received circuit information into the database terminal, and timely sending out alarm information through the alarm terminal module when the data information is abnormal. According to the online monitoring system, real-time omnibearing monitoring of related parameters such as conductor temperature, conductor sag and meteorological environment can be achieved; and the online monitoring system can be widely applied to monitoring of the high-tension transmission line of an electric power system.