The invention relates to a method for obtaining traffic status based on a sensor network and a device thereof. The method and the device adopt a transmission mode where a site bus is combined with a mass-data transmission network to form the sensor network for obtaining the traffic status. A sensor access node and a compound node have data processing capability. Such traffic status parameters, which reflect the traffic status at the section, as traffic flow, time occupancy factor, vehicle instantaneous speed, average speed at a section, and distribution feature of flow at the section over time, are obtained at the access node of the sensor network; fusion of logistic level is finished at the compound node to obtain such parameters reflecting zone traffic status as delay time, saturation flow rate, average queue length, average queue time at a road section, average driving time, average journey time, average driving speed, traffic coefficient, and average delay time at a small granule area; and fusion of business level is finished in a central computer to obtain such parameters reflecting large granule traffic status as average journey time at different routes, traffic coefficient at different routes and zone traffic jam degree.