An intelligent steel stand is designed, which is set a groove on the steel stand center wire and embedded with fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor under the state of the center wire holding a certain load. FBG sensor can generate a certain strain before serving. Thus, the problems of low survival rate and limited monitoring range of FBG sensor can be solved. Based on the theoretical analysis of the strain transfer rate between embedded FBG sensor and substrate, the cross-sectional size of the groove, the bond length of the sensor and the elastic modulus of the packaging material are proposed to meet the designed requirements. Tensile experiments for the FBG intelligent steel strand are carried out in different monitoring ranges according to different holding values. The results show that the experimental data has good linearity and repeatability. When the holding value reaches 30% of the ultimate bearing capacity of the center wire, the monitoring range of FBG sensor is close to the limit tension of the steel strand. The monitoring for whole life cycle of steel strand can be achieved.