Can smart heating save you money and keep you warmer?

We check out the latest in smart heating control technology and apps so you are prepared for autumn and winter

Heating controls, even those clever thermostats are only as good as your habits and choice of the technology. Ensure you have a real prospect of saving money and increasing your home comforts. Picture: iStock

Properly deployed and over-ridden only when necessary, the latest smart heating controls clean up the flabby habits that routinely and unnecessarily kick up energy bills. Intelligent, app-prompted heating technology I scoffed at five years ago, is supremely useful in fighting back the cost of fossil fuel heating in particular.

Those carbon taxes and kilowatt prices are only going to get more penetrative over the next ten years, even with time-of-use tariffs and smart metering.