Patent ID: 7505874

Claim:
A method for establishing a sensor network having multiple sensor nodes, comprising: connecting sensor nodes to one another to transmit sensor data to a central receiving node; storing information in each sensor node from other neighboring sensor nodes lying in the reception area of each sensor node, on the basis of which each sensor node determines when to connect to other sensor nodes; forming initial information in a new sensor node using information from a mobile installation device, which is transmitted into the new sensor node during its installation storing at least one item of information about a time deviation between the internal clocks of the new sensor node and at least one already existing sensor node in the new sensor node, a time deviation being ascertained from a chronological difference of the internal clock of the installation device to the internal clock of at least one already existing sensor node in its reception area and a chronological difference of the internal clock of the installation device to the internal clock of the new sensor node; and transmitting the time deviation into the new sensor node.