Unlikely. This kind of wireless thermostat has two parts: the thermostat itself, and a separate receiver box that's directly connected to the boiler. There's usually a pairing process that you can go through where the two parts negotiate a shared value used in the protocol; this prevents one thermostat unintentionally controlling other boilers. You can see this described in the Installation Guide for the thermostat linked from the article (it's called 'binding' in the guide).
And so the heat-stroke-killer was born, offing his victims with rapid changes between coldest and hottest setting, natural death has never been this human-made.