# Can we contribute data from other sensor types? what best practice should we follow if we do so? **URL:** \ **Category:** Scientific Discourse\ **Created:** [August 16, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/can-we-contribute-data-from-other-sensor-types-what-best-practice-should-we-follow-if-we-do-so/788 "2021-08-16T17:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![thatent](https://forum.sensor.community/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@thatent](https://forum.sensor.community/u/thatent)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/can-we-contribute-data-from-other-sensor-types-what-best-practice-should-we-follow-if-we-do-so/788/3 "2021-08-26T00:36:53Z")
@doctorluz Found one more post that may be of interest. > [@I have created openapi/swagger documentation of sensor.community API](https://forum.sensor.community/t/i-have-created-openapi-swagger-documentation-of-sensor-community-api/786): > > I’m new to sensor.community. I want to send my data to the sensor community, but I don’t want to use the original firmware, so I have decided to send data via API. I have read the official documentation about the API, I’ve checked some posts on the forum about using the API, and after some experiments I think that I understand the basic concepts of this API. To understand it better I have written an openapi/swagger documentation for this API. There are a lot of things in my documentation that … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.sensor.community/t/can-we-contribute-data-from-other-sensor-types-what-best-practice-should-we-follow-if-we-do-so/788)._