You could do that if you wanted (and it'll be efficient but in a very local sense). But this article is mainly helpful for battery and mobile usage of IoT devi

You could do that if you wanted (and it'll be efficient but in a very local sense). But this article is mainly helpful for battery and mobile usage of IoT devices. At home, the biggest energy guzzlers are the components of your HVAC system, heating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, electric stove, etc. Their power consumption scale is roughly a million times that of all the IoT devices combined. You're not saving anything if you're only making IoT power consumption more efficient at home.