i’m working on something like " smart laboraory " , so i’m trying to make a smart voltage sensor that can read voltage and monitor it on a mobile phone using openhab ( through mqtt ) .
my imagination is to use a voltage sensor with esp8266 module communicating e.g. via MQTT with OH.
see the other thread.
When I did my thesis work I did the complete research/development on my own.
Not sure if I even already had internet access at that time. At least not for the research/development part.