diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pysensors/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pysensors/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c891140827ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pysensors/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, python, fetchFromGitHub, lm_sensors }:
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "2017-07-13";
+  pname = "pysensors";
+
+  # note that https://pypi.org/project/PySensors/ is a different project
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "bastienleonard";
+    repo = "pysensors";
+    rev = "ef46fc8eb181ecb8ad09b3d80bc002d23d9e26b3";
+    sha256 = "1xvbxnkz55fk5fpr514263c7s7s9r8hgrw4ybfaj5a0mligmmrfm";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ lm_sensors ];
+
+  # Tests are disable because they fail on `aarch64-linux`, probably
+  # due to sandboxing
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    cd tests
+    ${python.interpreter} -m unittest discover
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ guibou ];
+    description = "Easy hardware health monitoring in Python for Linux systems";
+    homepage = http://pysensors.readthedocs.org;
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e572eaefb2eb..d6a8fb0ffaa6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -18271,6 +18271,8 @@ EOF
 
   pyspark = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyspark { };
 
+  pysensors = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pysensors { };
+
   sseclient = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sseclient { };
 
   textacy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/textacy { };