That's the promise of the SmartHome Text heating control. A £700 ($1,379) box that hooks up to your existing central heating programmer, it has a built-in GSM phone with a pay-as-you-go Vodafone ...

Two simple changes can be made to a central heating system that could save you hundreds of pounds on energy bills each year.

When British Gas wanted to enable people to remotely control their homes’ central heating with smartphone apps and save on utility bills, it selected public cloud infrastructure to give ...