What Is the Kilo IoT Platform MCP Server?
Kilo is an AI-first IoT platform for commercial and industrial operations. This MCP server puts a live deployment inside the AI client you already use — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or anything else that speaks Streamable HTTP.
Most connectors let a model read a database. This one reaches the physical world: the sensors on the wall, the machines on the floor, the vehicles in the yard.
https://mcp-auth.kiloiot.io/mcp
What Can AI Do With Your IoT Devices?
Ask what's going on. Which devices at the north site went quiet overnight. What the alarms looked like around Tuesday's compressor failure. What the cold-store dashboard is showing right now. Which sensor is measuring what.
Then tell it to act.
- IoT device management — list and inspect devices, read telemetry and diagnostics, provision hardware in a batch, manage device profiles and sensor mappings
- Device control — list the commands a device supports, send one, check how it completed
- Rules engine — generate automation, simulate it against the device's real readings before it reaches production, deploy it, stop it instantly, review execution history
- Alarms — list and resolve, summarize activity for a shift or a site, manage alarm rules, notification channels and escalation
- Dashboards — list dashboards and query the data behind any widget
- Organization — teams, invites, roles
How Do I Connect Claude Code to Kilo?
claude mcp add --transport http kilo https://mcp-auth.kiloiot.io/mcp
Run /mcp, pick kilo, and authorize in the browser. For Claude Desktop, ChatGPT or Cursor: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the same URL.
Full setup guide: github.com/Kiloiot/kilo-mcp · docs.kiloiot.io
Is It Safe to Give an AI Access to Real Equipment?
- You sign in, not a service account. OAuth 2.1 in your browser with your normal Kilo account. No API key to mint, nothing stored on the machine running the client.
- Your permissions are the ceiling. If you can't deploy a rule or invite a user, neither can the assistant. Requests for an organization you don't belong to are refused.
- Every tool is annotated. Read-only tools run without interrupting you; anything that changes real state asks first.
- Actions keep their records — rule history, command execution history, audit trail.
Which Protocols and Devices Are Supported?
Kilo is protocol-agnostic by design. Whatever your devices speak, the data lands normalized, so the same question works across every vendor in the building — LoRaWAN with a built-in network server, MQTT, GPS trackers and more.
Start free at kiloiot.io · built by Kilo IoT GmbH
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