BGS Sensor Data

BGS Sensor Data Service

The BGS Sensor Data Service implements the OGC SensorThings API, providing access to real-time and historical environmental monitoring data. No authentication required.

Capabilities

• Monitoring stations (Things) — boreholes, weather stations, seismometer sites.
• Datastreams for a station — data series linking to measured properties and sensors.
• Observations — measurement values from a datastream (time-series data).
• Locations — geographic positions of monitoring sites (GeoJSON points).
• Observed properties — physical quantities measured (groundwater level, temperature, conductivity, etc.).
• Sensors — instruments and devices used for monitoring.

Workflow

1. Find stations by enumerating Things or Locations
2. Explore data series using a Thing ID to see available datastreams
3. Pull measurements from a Datastream ID to retrieve actual observation values
4. Understand properties to see what quantities are measured across the network
5. Understand instruments to see monitoring hardware details

Query Parameters

All list tools accept top to limit results. The underlying API also supports $skip, $orderby, and $filter (OData).

Tips

• Observations are ordered by phenomenonTime desc by default (most recent first).
• Thing IDs and Datastream IDs are integers.
• Results include @iot.nextLink for pagination when more data is available.