openSenseMap

About openSenseMap

openSenseMap is a REST API for a citizen science sensor network, providing endpoints to retrieve and submit environmental sensor data from distributed measurement stations called "boxes." It supports operations for listing boxes and their sensors, fetching current and historical measurements, retrieving statistics and interpolated data, and posting new sensor readings.

The API also includes a user account system with registration, sign-in, password reset, and email confirmation, along with authenticated routes for managing boxes: creating, updating, deleting, claiming, and transferring ownership, as well as deleting individual measurements. Authentication for protected routes is handled via JWT.

This API is intended for developers building applications that consume or contribute environmental sensor data, such as tools for visualizing measurements, managing sensor box deployments, or integrating citizen-collected environmental readings into other systems.

Key features

• Register and manage sensor boxes (senseBoxes) via REST API
• Post new sensor measurements to individual or multiple sensors
• Retrieve latest measurements and historical data by box or sensor
• Query box locations and metadata
• Compute inverse distance weighting (IDW) interpolation statistics across sensor data
• JWT-based user authentication with registration, sign-in, and password reset

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