MOES: Residential heating and automation

MOES supplies residential thermostats, radiator valves, switches and gateways, including Zigbee controls for room heating.

Summary

Best for
Adding room-level heating schedules and individual load controls to a home.
Less suited to
Using radiator valve temperature or position as a substitute for measured heat consumption.
Deployment
Battery-powered radiator actuators and powered controls, using the gateway and app path specified for each product.
Data in
Zigbee and Wi-Fi product families; manufacturer app features depend on the selected gateway and device.
Pricing
Retail device and gateway purchases, with separate enquiries for distribution and project volumes.

Overview

MOES supplies controls for residential heating, lighting and other household equipment. Its brand page describes both consumer sales and support for installers and distributors. For energy applications, the useful starting point is the controlled load: a radiator valve adjusts water flow through one radiator, whereas a wall thermostat or electrical switch serves a different part of the heating system.

The range is therefore most useful as a collection of local control points rather than a single whole-building energy meter. Schedules and setpoints can change demand, but they do not themselves measure the resulting fuel or electricity consumption. An energy project can combine these controls with separate circuit or heat measurements to evaluate the outcome.

Offering

The BRT100/BY100 radiator valve listing describes a Zigbee actuator powered by two AA batteries. It offers manual and scheduled operation, with a 5+2-day programme and four daily time periods. The device moves the valve rather than directly switching a boiler or measuring the heat delivered to a room.

The current shop page uses BRT100 in its title and BY100 in its SKU. That is a useful reason to retain the complete label when replacing an existing BRT-100-TRV. MOES's manual lookup instructions direct buyers to search by SKU or product identifier. The supplied mechanical adapters and installation instructions should be checked against the actual radiator valve before selecting the actuator.

Products and platforms

  1. MOES gateways

    Residential gateways

    Zigbee and multi-mode gateways for the manufacturer ecosystem.4

Technology

The gateway catalogue contains different Zigbee and multi-mode connection products. A battery-powered Zigbee radiator actuator reaches the manufacturer's app through a gateway; it does not connect directly to a Wi-Fi access point. The receiving gateway also determines which automation and remote-access functions are available to the household.

MOES introduced its own app with scheduling, scene automation and shared device control. Those app functions sit above the device radio. A third-party Zigbee installation should be evaluated using the exact device's supported controls and reports, rather than assuming that every feature shown in the manufacturer's app is reproduced by another coordinator.

Markets

MOES addresses homes as well as installers and distribution partners through its partner programme. Its selection of heating and switching products allows a project to concentrate on individual rooms or loads. This can be useful where a full replacement of the building's heating system is outside the scope of the work.

A radiator actuator is most valuable when its schedule reflects room use and the wider heating system still supplies heat when required. A room setpoint is not a direct instruction to every boiler or central plant. The radiator product documentation should therefore be read alongside the building's existing controls, with the integration plan explaining how local demand and central heating operation relate.

Company

MOES presents itself as a smart-home brand in its company information, with a separate business channel for project and distribution enquiries. Its product documentation is the strongest source for buying decisions: the catalogue spans multiple radio technologies and several generations of control products.

The Bolivian trademark gazette, page 224, names Wenzhou Morning Electronics Co., Ltd. in China as the MOES trademark owner in 2023. This establishes the brand-owner country. The company’s Connectivity Standards Alliance member profile dates Wenzhou Morning Electronics to 2014 and the creation of its MOES brand to 2017. The founding year above refers to the brand. Frost & Sullivan’s December 2025 smart-home industry report, page 84, identifies Wenzhou, China as MOES’s headquarters. The city-level headquarters entry follows that dated research report, available through the CRE8IR filing archive. A manufacturer named in an individual device manual and an operator named in an app policy are not automatically the same legal role. The brand history does not establish a single OEM for every product sold under the MOES name.

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References

  1. MOES about (opens in a new tab)
  2. MOES trv (opens in a new tab)
  3. MOES manual (opens in a new tab)
  4. MOES gateway (opens in a new tab)
  5. MOES agent (opens in a new tab)
  6. MOES app (opens in a new tab)
  7. MOES privacy (opens in a new tab)
  8. Bolivian official MOES trademark publication, June 2023 (opens in a new tab) (PDF)
  9. Wenzhou Morning Electronics: CSA member profile and MOES brand history (opens in a new tab)
  10. Frost & Sullivan: Global Smart Home Industry, December 2025, page 84 (CRE8IR copy) (opens in a new tab) (PDF)

This profile does not imply a commercial relationship with MOES and may contain inaccuracies.