Abstract: When support pressure monitoring system is used in over-length workface, it is very difficult to meet both demands of real-time transmission and capturing burst signals in the pressure because of limitation of bus querying period. A segment data fitting method was proposed for support pressure monitoring. In the method, data is divided as a segment according to querying period of the system. If data amount in a data segment is less than amount of fitting coefficients, the data is transmitted directly. If the data amount is larger, data polynomial fitting method is used to fit the data, thus fitting coefficients are gotten and transmitted. The experimental result shows that the method reduces amount of data transmission significantly, reserves important information and fixes data transmission amount in each querying period for clear data transmission management.