Sensor system and method

1. A sensor system having at least one measuring point, comprising:

wherein the sensor system has at least one first sensor and one measuring transducer;

wherein the first sensor is configured to output first sensor signals that are a function of a first measurand of a measuring medium present at the measuring point;

wherein the measuring transducer is connected to the first sensor in order to receive the first sensor signals and comprises an evaluation application which is configured to determine at least one additional piece of information that is different from the first measurand using an evaluation algorithm based on at least the first sensor signals; and

wherein the sensor system furthermore comprises a higher-level data processing structure, wherein both the higher-level data processing structure and the measuring transducer are configured to execute a training application configured to train the evaluation algorithm;

wherein the higher-level data processing structure is provided with a first training data set for training the evaluation algorithm and wherein the measuring transducer is provided with a second training data set which is a specific training set of the user of the measuring point.

2. The sensor system of claim 1 , wherein the additional information is a further measurand of the measuring medium, or a qualitative characteristic of the measuring medium, or information about the first measuring point.

3. The sensor system of claim 1 , wherein the additional information represents a flavor or a flavor component, an odor or an odor component of the measuring medium.

4. The sensor system of claim 1 , wherein the first measuring point is a process measuring point and wherein the additional information represents a state of the process.

5. The sensor system of claim 1 , wherein the evaluation algorithm comprises a mapping rule and

wherein the training application is configured to train coefficients of the mapping rule.

6. The sensor system of claim 1 , wherein the measuring point comprises at least one second sensor configured to output second sensor signals which are a function of a second measurand of the measuring medium that is different from the first measurand and the additional information;

wherein the measuring transducer is connected to the second sensor in order to receive the second sensor signals; and

wherein the evaluation application is configured to determine the additional information by means of the evaluation algorithm on the basis of the first and second sensor signals.

7. The sensor system of claim 6 , wherein the training application is configured to train the evaluation algorithm on the basis of a training data set comprising at least first sensor signals.

8. A method for determining additional information that is different from a first measurand of a measuring medium that can be determined using a first sensor based on at least first sensor signals of the first sensor that are a function of the first measurand, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

detecting the first sensor signals of the first sensor;

determining the additional information using an evaluation application executed by a measuring transducer connected to the first sensor for communication, wherein the evaluation application determines the additional information using an evaluation algorithm on the basis of at least the first sensor signals; and

wherein the evaluation algorithm is trained using a training application which is selectively executed in a higher-order data processing structure

wherein the higher-level data processing structure is provided with a first training data set for training the evaluation algorithm and wherein the measuring transducer is provided with a second training data set which is a specific training set of the user of the measuring point.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

detecting second sensor signals of at least one second sensor connected to the measuring transducer for communication, wherein the second sensor signals are a function of a second measurand of the measuring medium that is different from the first measurand and the additional information; and

determining the additional information using the evaluation application, wherein the evaluation application determines the additional information using the evaluation algorithm on the basis of at least the first and second sensor signals.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the evaluation algorithm is trained using the training application executed by the higher-level data processing structure, on the basis of a first training data set in order to generate a first version of the evaluation algorithm, and wherein the first version of the evaluation algorithm is subsequently transmitted to the measuring transducer in order to be executed by the latter in order to determine the additional information.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first version of the evaluation algorithm is trained using the training application executed by the measuring transducer based on a second training data set that is different from the first training data set to generate a second version of the evaluation algorithm.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein, subsequently, the additional information is determined by the measuring transducer on the basis of the second version of the evaluation algorithm.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the measuring transducer determines a first value of the additional information on the basis of the first version of the evaluation algorithm and a second value of the additional information on the basis of the second version of the evaluation algorithm and displays them for a user.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the evaluation algorithm is trained by the higher-level data processing structure using the training application, wherein the training data set used for this purpose comprises sensor signals of sensors of the same type which were detected at different measuring points in order to determine the same additional information.