Method for collecting data, associated with a consumption, a physical or physical/chemical parameter and/or an operating status during operation of a local sensor, preferably a sensor for a consumption meter, as a component of a supply network for distributing a consumable, which supply network comprises at least one local sensor, preferably a plurality of local sensors, wherein the sensor contains a measuring element, the measuring element of the respective sensor supplies, as raw measurement data, elementary measurement units, which correspond to at least one physical or physical/chemical variable or at least one physical or physical/chemical parameter, and the sensor comprises communication means and storage means, wherein in order to define the measurement resolution of the sensor, the conditions for generating time stamps are defined in advance using a correlation model, time stamps of successive items of raw measurement data are generated in the sensor on the basis of the correlation model, the time stamps are transmitted so that the raw measurement data acquired by the measuring element is reconstructed using the correlation model on the basis of the time stamps, and analysed, and wherein the sensor is connected to a data collector via a primary communication path, a tertiary communication path is provided between the data collector and a head-end, and the time stamps transmitted by the sensor are collected, saved and/or analysed in the data collector and/or in the head-end, characterized in that the transmission is carried out with a redundancy that can be dynamically adapted during operation, wherein the redundancy in the transmission is achieved by repeatedly transmitting the same time stamps and/or repeatedly transmitting the same data packet (PA j) in a plurality of successive transmission operations, and a plurality of time stamps are transmitted as one data packet (17 i, 17 i+n) along the primary communication path, wherein a data packet respectively contains a plurality of time stamps (TS1-TSn), and the stipulation of when a data transmission should be carried out by the sensor depends on whether a specified amount of, in particular compressed, collected time stamps since the previous data transmission has been reached. the sensor contains a measuring element, the measuring element of the respective sensor supplies, as raw measurement data, elementary measurement units, which correspond to at least one physical or physical/chemical variable or at least one physical or physical/chemical parameter, and the sensor comprises communication means and storage means, wherein in order to define the measurement resolution of the sensor, the conditions for generating time stamps are defined in advance using a correlation model, time stamps of successive items of raw measurement data are generated in the sensor on the basis of the correlation model, the time stamps are transmitted so that the raw measurement data acquired by the measuring element is reconstructed using the correlation model on the basis of the time stamps, and analysed, and wherein the sensor is connected to a data collector via a primary communication path, a tertiary communication path is provided between the data collector and a head-end, and the time stamps transmitted by the sensor are collected, saved and/or analysed in the data collector and/or in the head-end, characterized in that the transmission is carried out with a redundancy that can be dynamically adapted during operation, wherein the redundancy in the transmission is achieved by repeatedly transmitting the same time stamps and/or repeatedly transmitting the same data packet (PA j) in a plurality of successive transmission operations, and a plurality of time stamps are transmitted as one data packet (17 i, 17 i+n) along the primary communication path, wherein a data packet respectively contains a plurality of time stamps (TS1-TSn), and the stipulation of when a data transmission should be carried out by the sensor depends on whether a specified amount of, in particular compressed, collected time stamps since the previous data transmission has been reached.