The invention discloses a software-defined wide area network system with low power consumption and a configuration method thereof. The system comprises user terminals, a cloud server, a gateway and a plurality of wide area networks with low power consumption, wherein the user terminal is connected with the cloud server, the wide area network with low power consumption is composed of a plurality of terminal devices, and each terminal device is connected to the cloud server through the gateway; and a network server of the wide area network with low power consumption is a cloud server that operates a protocol stack of the wide area network with low power consumption or a gateway that operates the protocol stack of the wide area network with low power consumption. The protocol stack of the wide area network is operated on the cloud server or the gateway, so a new MAC layer protocol can be continuously updated, expanded and added to adapt to a variety of different application scenes, the requirements on the terminal devices are reduced, the terminal devices of any protocol can be connected to the cloud server through the gateway, so as to realize the interconnection and intercommunication of the terminal devices with the terminal devices, and the terminal devices with the user terminals. The software-defined wide area network system with low power consumption disclosed by the invention is suitable for the field of communications of the internet of things.