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, from 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, and a master, which is in communication with the local sensor(s) via a primary communication path, 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 a wired primary communication path is provided between the respective sensor and the master, the sensor comprises 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 via the primary communication path so that the raw measurement data acquired by the measuring element is reconstructed using the correlation model on the basis of the time stamps received by the master, and analysed, and wherein a plurality of time stamps are transmitted as one data packet (17i, 17i+n) along the primary communication path, wherein a data packet respectively contains a plurality of time stamps (TS1-TSn), a new data transmission is performed by the sensor in the form of a data packet, as soon as at least the following condition is met: reaching a specified amount of, in particular compressed, collected time stamps since the previous data transmission. 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 a wired primary communication path is provided between the respective sensor and the master, the sensor comprises 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 via the primary communication path so that the raw measurement data acquired by the measuring element is reconstructed using the correlation model on the basis of the time stamps received by the master, and analysed, and wherein a plurality of time stamps are transmitted as one data packet (17i, 17i+n) along the primary communication path, wherein a data packet respectively contains a plurality of time stamps (TS1-TSn), a new data transmission is performed by the sensor in the form of a data packet, as soon as at least the following condition is met: reaching a specified amount of, in particular compressed, collected time stamps since the previous data transmission.