Intelligent household monitoring equipment and system applying the equipment

The invention provides intelligent household monitoring equipment. The intelligent household monitoring equipment is characterized in that the equipment comprises a camera and a controller; the controller comprises a processing unit possessing a processing capability, an execution unit driving the camera to act and a memory cell; an instruction database driving the camera to act is established in the memory cell; the controller is integrated with or connected with a normally-open gateway so as to receive a control instruction of a far end; the far-end control instruction is from an intelligent terminal and is sent to the controller via a cloud server. Simultaneously, the invention also provides an intelligent household monitoring system applying the equipment. The equipment and the system are combined with an Internet of things technology and an intelligent and convenient remote household control scheme is provided for a user.