Mobile transportation means for transporting data collectors, data collection system and data collection method

A mobile transportation apparatus for transporting at least one data collector to at least one data collection position has at least one set-down apparatus for setting down the data collector at the data collection position and at least one receiving apparatus for receiving data which the data collector transmits to the transportation apparatus. Accordingly, a data collection system has at least one mobile transportation apparatus and at least one data collector. In a data collection method, at least one data collector is transported to at least one data collection position by way of at least one mobile transportation apparatus and is set down at the said data collection position by a set-down apparatus of the transportation apparatus, the data collector which is arranged at the data collection position collects data, and the collected data is transmitted to the transportation apparatus by the data collector.