### Related Work  
Research and engineering works on the development and technical verification of smart home modules generally focus on two aspects: (i) analyzing the possibilities of reducing energy consumption by wireless battery-operated modules and (ii) ensuring high comfort of use--safe and reliable data transmission for basic control or monitoring functions. These two aspects are the most important for the effective and safe implementation of intelligent solutions based on the concept of distributed networks and IoT in households. In the organization of smart home systems, many different technical solutions and wireless methods of communication between network nodes, sensors, actuators, and controllers are used. In [13], [PERSON] et al. point out several technical concepts for smart homes based on different wireless communication techniques, such as the Global System for Mobile (GSM), ZigBee, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Moreover, in [2; 3; 14], the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Z-Wave, as well as Long-Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN) techniques are added. The authors of these publications discuss the reliability of data communication and the range of the radio signal, ensuring the comfort of using smart home systems. All results indicate the best performance in the case of Wi-Fi (the largest range) and ZigBee, but at the cost of much higher power consumption by the communicating modules. According to the results presented in [2], the power consumption for modules with Wi-Fi communication can be even several times higher than in the case of ZigBee and Z-Wave communication, the range of which is about 30% lower. However, it is the systems based on Wi-Fi technology that are currently gaining the greatest popularity, primarily due to the universality of access to this communication technique in homes and public utility buildings. In this way, the implementation of the smart home system does not require the installation of additional communication infrastructure, and it is possible to easily integrate home and building automation devices with other elements of their infrastructure using a wireless Ethernet/Internet connection. Therefore, to improve the energy efficiency of smart home modules, while maintaining their ease of integration and operation, the possibilities of organizing hybrid systems are also analyzed, using various techniques and protocols of wireless and wired communication, depending on the needs of the application (communication in one room, in several rooms, communication between building floors, etc.). For instance, in [15], [PERSON] et al. propose several different variants of the organization of the communication network for smart home and IoT systems in buildings, along with an indication of the paths of decision-making procedures necessary in the design of the communication network. The procedures should specifically consider: (i) energy efficiency in relation to the dynamics of the wireless network topology and multipath propagation, (ii) the importance and requirements of real-time communication (e.g., in critical applications, security, etc. ), and (iii) the standardization of data protocols between wired and wireless devices as well as interoperability with other backbones (multi-level networks in larger buildings). Considering these aspects and innovative topology approaches, an advanced IoT-based electrical consumption measurement system for smart homes has been proposed and analyzed in [9]. The authors focused on integration of the most popular communication techniques based on the TCP/IP protocol, both wireless and wired, using different devices dedicated to smart home systems. Detailed energy consumption and performance analysis for IoT nodes with both wired and wireless mediums in smart home automation has been performed in [6; 16].