Zoned smart heating allows to control individual rooms and keep overall heating consumption low. Comparing to smart thermostats (like Nest) this makes your heating even more efficient. For example, some rooms (like bedrooms and study) are only used for very specific times but those will be heated all the time with conventional heating systems. As the result manufactures promise from 30-40% reduction of your gas bill and our readers report that this is realistic. The initial cost will be relatively high, but you should strongly consider installing one in your house. Aside from inevitable payback in 1-2 years, ability to fine-tune temperature in rooms to your family needs really improve the quality of life and sleep. We should also consider our impact on the environment and this is one of the ways to drastically reduce it.

There are four main solutions for smart systems (Honeywell, TaDo, Netatmo, and Drayton) and some less popular options (HeatMiser, Genius, Lightwave RF and z-wave TRVs). We suggest to choose on the former group as the slightly higher price is fully justified by the quality of the products with ease of setup and maintenance. All four systems offer fairly similar functionality with Honeywell offering slightly richer controls. Netatmo is a relative newcomer, with Tado and especially Honeywell and Drayton having many years of experience and iterations of similar products.