Method for collecting data, sensor and supply network

A method for collecting data during operation of a local sensor in a supply network for distributing a consumable, the method comprising:

• providing the sensor with a measuring element, with radio communication capability and a memory;
• providing elementary measuring units with the measuring element of the sensor, the elementary measuring units corresponding to at least one physical or physico-chemical variable or at least one physical or physico-chemical parameter and forming raw measurement data;
• defining a measurement resolution of the sensor by defining via a correlation model conditions for generating time stamps in advance;
• generating time stamps of successive items of raw measurement data in the sensor on a basis of the correlation model;
• transmitting the time stamps, reconstructing the raw measurement data acquired by the measuring element based on the time stamps using the correlation model, and analyzing the reconstructed measurement data;
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• thereby performing the transmitting step with a dynamically adaptable redundancy.