A household intelligent monitoring system relates to the field of image monitoring technique. The technical problems object to resolve is to reduce the cost of the monitoring system and to facilitate the mounting. The monitoring system includes the following functional modules: 1) an intelligent monitoring terminal, for the completion of the functions of intelligent picking-up of the scene to be monitored, the storing of the photograph, transmission of parts of photographs to the mobile phone of a user, and the like; 2) an infrared detectors, for all-weather monitoring of indoor instance and triggering the cam to start pick-up the scene images; 3) a Zigbee wireless transmission module, for wireless connection of the infrared detector and the intelligent monitoring terminal, and the transmission of alarm signals; 4) a GPRS wireless transmission module, for connecting the main processor of the intelligent monitoring terminal, and transmitting the photograph picked-up by the intelligent monitoring terminal onto mobile phones of users in an MMS form. The monitoring system of the invention has features of low-power consumption, low cost, convenient equipment installation, flexible mode for receiving monitoring images, and good transmission quality.