The invention relates to a photovoltaic polar plate fault damage detection device based on wireless communication and a method of the same. The device comprises a temperature sensor, a solar radiation meter, a voltage sensor, a CPU (central processing unit) motherboard, a wireless signal transmitter, a fault display and the like, wherein the CPU motherboard comprises a wireless signal receiver, a radiation amount converter, a power comparator, a current comparator, a temperature converter, a fault discriminator, a register, a fault processor and the like. The temperature sensor, the solar radiation meter and the current transformer are arranged in an array to collect the ambient temperature, the solar radiation flux per unit area and the current of each series group of the photovoltaic array, data are transmitted into the register through wireless communication and respectively to the radiation amount/power converter, the temperature converter, the current comparator and a summing device to obtain the theoretical array output power, the actual array output power, the total current and the current of the series groups with differences, results are transmitted into the power comparator, the fault discriminator and the fault processor to obtain the current fault state and the series group with the fault, and results are transmitted into the fault display. The possibility of failure is verified through coupling of multiple parameters, and thus the false alarm rate can be reduced effectively. Meanwhile, the fault can be positioned, and the speed of troubleshooting of the photovoltaic polar plate can be increased.