Well the point of this project was to provide an introduction to IoT sensors, so the main requirement was to connect the sensor to a web server. If you had hun

Well the point of this project was to provide an introduction to IoT sensors, so the main requirement was to connect the sensor to a web server. If you had hundreds of these things connected, and wanted to run analytics, push the data to other devices off the local network, or store the data efficiently then a cloud networking architecture might be exactly what you're looking for. If not, there are plenty of non-IoT sensors you can connect to a local machine or gateway with your choice of wired/wireless comms protocols. You could just leave also just leave this sensor connected to the computer via USB. It wouldn't be practical for much, but it would be simple!