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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Contributors to the Power Grid Model project <powergridmodel@lfenergy.org>
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "sensor.hpp"
+
+namespace power_grid_model {} // namespace power_grid_model