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mcp-opensensemap

openSenseMap MCP — citizen-science environmental sensor network (opensensemap.org)

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.

Tools

Tool

Description

opensensemap_nearby

Find citizen science sensor stations (senseBox, openSenseMap network) near a lat/lon and return their latest readings — hyperlocal temperature, humidity, air pressure, PM2.5/PM10 air quality, illuminance, UV, noise. Answers "sensor readings near me", "what does the local air quality sensor say". Community-operated uncalibrated hardware: quality varies, so cross-check outliers. Filter to one measurement type with phenomenon (

opensensemap_box

Get one openSenseMap citizen science sensor station (senseBox) by its box id — full sensor readout with latest value, unit, and measurement time per sensor (temperature, humidity, PM2.5/PM10 air quality, pressure, noise...), plus location, exposure (outdoor/indoor/mobile) and station metadata. Box ids come from opensensemap_nearby. Community-operated uncalibrated sensors. Example: opensensemap_box({ box_id: "65e8d93acbf5700007f920ca" })

opensensemap_area_average

Average one phenomenon across all citizen science sensors (openSenseMap / senseBox network) in an area — hyperlocal neighborhood-level temperature, PM2.5/PM10 air quality, humidity, pressure or noise from many independent community stations. Give either a bounding box or a center point + radius_km. Aggregates the latest reading per sensor over the recent window client-side (the network has no fast server-side aggregation).

Related MCP server: OpenWeather MCP Server

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opensensemap": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opensensemap/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opensensemap/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-toolsask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Opensensemap data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

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License

MIT

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