Abstract: With the proposed invention a method for configuring a measuring arrangement for physical, more particularly thermal conditions over a section to be measured is indicated, comprising at least one locally distributed sensor. The measuring arrangement consists of programmable modules with the minimum characteristics of acquire, edit, save, represent and signal measurement data of at least one distributed sensor. The method according to the invention consists in the fact that zone-specific data of the section to be measured are assigned to zone-specific measured quantities, and that these data are combined into data groups, and that the modules are configured with parameter sets with which editing steps of the individual modules are functionally assigned to one another. One parameter set preferably includes at least sensor-specific parameters; measuring instrument-specific parameters; organization of data and programs; organization of hardware modules; representation of the data and communication parameters.