As the main direction of the identification, face recognition plays an important role in this field. Due to its flexibility, the use of software defined radio is becoming more and wider in the field of wireless communication in recent years. Combining these two techniques, building a remote face recognition system is a trend of future identification. In this paper we introduce a remote face recognition system based on LabVIEW and NI USRP. This system consists of three parts. That is image capture, face recognition and wireless communication. One host and several slaves constitute this system. The slave capture picture of face and send it to host with NI USRP by wireless channel. The host receives data from NI USRP connecting with slave, and then processes data and recognizes the pictures. Finally, the identity information was sent to the slaves.