Four years ago I made a very simple microcontroller circuit that measured chiller temperatures, used WiFi to upload to a cloud service which provided plots to anyone interested. In one class, we made alarms that sent our Tweets when events like temperature exceeded limits. These ideas could be combined to allow multiple methods of monitoring.
A project could monitor multiple conditions of the lasers and provide alarm tweets to the laser maintenance team. I’m not volunteering to lead this but would certainly participate. The cost to monitor four lasers would probably not exceed $100.00. @Team_Laser @Team_Electronics