This is a bit technical and lacking in context (it does not make complete sense on its own). So my wording may need to be adjusted if I did not understand what you wanted to say. Here are my suggestions: In all the above cases, we have both sensors, which receive physical signals and transform them into digital data, and we have functioning units, which use the collected data to perform sets of actions, share them with other machines, or prepare reports.
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