Patent ID: 6954646

Claim:
A data communication radio network ( 11 ) with bidirectionally operating data collectors ( 13 ) which communicate data telegrams ( 18 ) from data-generating terminal devices ( 12 ) to a data-documenting master data collector ( 14 ), characterized in that the data collectors ( 13 ) determine distribution criteria in respect of the respective primary radio section ( 10 ) between a terminal device ( 12 ) and a first data collector ( 13 ) in the network ( 11 ) and communicate the distribution criteria to the master data collector ( 14 ), on the basis of the communication of the distribution criteria to the master data collector, an association of the transmission of an original data telegram ( 18 ) from a terminal device ( 12 ) by way of its primary radio section ( 10 ) is effected singularly with one and only one of the data collectors ( 13 ), other terminal devices ( 12 ) can also be singularly associated with the one and only one of the data collectors ( 13 ), the one and only one of the data collectors also receives distribution criteria belonging to other terminal devices ( 12 ) not associated with it and makes same available to the master data collector ( 14 ) and wherein the association of the terminal devices ( 12 ) with given data collectors ( 13 ), once effected in dependence on the distribution criteria, is maintained until a new association is effected on the basis of current distribution criteria, in time-controlled or random-controlled fashion or on the basis of events in the network ( 11 ).