Method for the energy-efficient operation of a wireless monitoring sensor for detecting time measurements, characterized in that measured values detected by the monitoring sensor in the time domain are transformed into the frequency domain in order to generate a frequency-dependent amplitude and phase spectrum in a predetermined frequency range, in that the overall size of the resulting bit data is reduced by compression, with bit data of the same data size being combined to form a bit sequence, in that bit sequences having the same number of significant bits, that is to say bits having the same number of leading zeros, are wirelessly transmitted to a recipient reduced by the number of leading zeros and combined accordingly, and in that the combined bit sequences are decoded again by the recipient, with the data with the reduced leading zeros being supplemented again.