The present invention discloses a method and device for monitoring and controlling an M2M terminal device based on a policy. An M2M platform obtains a state monitoring and control policy, stores a state control policy of the state monitoring and control policy, issues a state monitoring policy of the state monitoring and control policy, receives reported state information, and triggers a state control operation according to the state information and the state control policy. An M2M terminal device receives the state monitoring policy, triggers a state monitoring operation according to the state monitoring policy, reports monitored state information, receives operation information, and executes the state control operation according to the operation information.
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