Can Smart Valves Save You Money

A smart radiator valve can save you money because it allows you to control your house’s temperature room-by-room. If you have a room that gets particular hot (for example), you can install a smart valve and make it so that that specific radiator comes on less.

Of course, you can also do this with a thermostatic radiator valve, but a smart valve will also allow you to control things remotely, along with including it in automation routines. For example, you might have a SmartThings routine that detects when you’re coming home, and then carries out a range of actions including opening certain smart radiator valves as required.

The smart radiator valve that it can save you up to 30% on your heating bills, which would be higher than the 10-12% savings that you’ll have with their Learning Thermostat.

In some ways this makes sense. A smart thermostat will control your whole house’s heating, turning the heating up or down for all rooms in your house. If you don’t have TRVs (which most houses don’t), you might find that certain rooms get too hot – quite literally burning away money. This is especially the case if someone in the house always likes the heating above 22°C…