Please look up the words "almost" and "everything"

Humans have literally used almost everything as money throughout history. If you haven’t read “The Bitcoin Standard” you might want to consider doing so :)

NordlysLN

Believing anything can be money explains why you brought up Helium.

premitive1

bitcoin

Any projects to integrate lightning nodes with wireless mesh networks? 

anonporridge

Anything can be money. Doesn’t mean that it’s anywhere near as good money as Bitcoin is but it has a value and it’s provided as an incentive to route data traffic for IoT devices, similarly to what you describe in your post. 