Terminal peripheral data management method and m2m gateway

This invention discloses a terminal peripheral data management method. The method comprises: machine-to-machine/man (M2M) gateway performs data collection, data storage, data processing and data forwarding on the data of terminal peripheral and/or a terminal peripheral group according to strategies, wherein the strategy is issued by an M2M application or an M2M business platform or is configured locally in the M2M gateway; the strategies at least comprises data collection strategy, a data storage strategy, a data processing strategy and a data forwarding strategy. This invention also discloses a M2M gateway performing terminal peripheral data management, which is used for collecting data, storing data, processing data and forwarding data on the terminal peripheral/or the terminal peripheral group according to strategies. This invention performs completion on the management functions of the M2M gateway so as to effectively manage the data of the terminal peripheral.