A system for the transmission of data relating to an object includes a local computing unit assigned to the object, said local computing unit including data memory, an evaluation unit and an application. The application causes the evaluation unit to store data relating to the object in the data memory. A software agent collects the data relating to the object stored in the data memory and transmits it to an external computing unit via a data connection. The software agent has a classification module that classifies the data relating to the object into sensitive data and non-sensitive data. The sensitive data is transmitted to the external computing unit using an encryption algorithm, and the non-sensitive data is transmitted to the external computing unit unencrypted.