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In this context, sensor-based devices play a leading role in surveying, e.g., health conditions of elderly people, to alert care personnel in case of an incident. However, the adoption of such devices strongly depends on the comfort of wearing the devices. In most cases, the bottleneck is the battery lifetime, which impacts the effectiveness of the system. In this paper we propose an approach to reduce the energy consumption of sensors\u2019 by use of local sensors\u2019 intelligence. By increasing the intelligence of the sensor node, a substantial decrease in the necessary communication payload can be achieved. 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