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Virtual Home Label (OPEN Technologies)

Virtual Home Label (OPEN Technologies)

by OPEN Regenerative Technologies

AI-powered residential building assessment platform

Onye Dike
Updated by Onye Dike on July 15th, 2026
OPEN Technologies' Virtual Home Label is an AI-powered residential building assessment platform that helps homeowners, municipalities, and utilities understand the energy performance and net-zero readiness of existing homes. Rather than relying solely on conventional in-person energy audits, the platform uses AI-driven building and energy modelling to estimate household energy consumption and carbon emissions, generating personalized retrofit roadmaps for individual properties. At the same time, it provides community-wide insights that enable governments and organizations to design more effective energy efficiency programmes and accelerate residential decarbonization at scale.

Available Energy Management Features

Energy Baseline Calculation
Energy Benchmarking
Multi-Site Support
Workflow Automation

Missing Energy Management Features

Alerts/Notifications
Asset Performance Monitoring (energy assets)
Compliance Reporting
Cost Tracking
Customizable Dashboards
Data Import/Export
Emissions Factor Database
Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs)
Integration with IoT Sensors
Real-Time Energy Monitoring

Pricing

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Deployment Options

  • Web Browser (Cloud - Based)

Good Option For

  • Small Business (11-50 people)
  • Medium Business (51-250 people)
  • Large Business (250+ people)

Deep dive


Core Features

Virtual Home Label applies AI-driven building and energy modelling to generate residential energy assessments at scale. Trained on geographically specific datasets, the platform delivers high-accuracy estimates significantly faster than conventional energy audits, enabling both personalized homeowner guidance and data-driven policy development. Some of its principal capabilities include:

  • AI-Powered Home Energy Modelling – Estimates residential energy consumption and carbon emissions using AI models trained on geographically specific building data.

  • Personalized Retrofit Roadmaps – Produces tailored improvement plans that recommend energy-saving and emissions-reduction measures for individual homes, together with estimated project costs, payback periods, and links to local financial and informational resources.

  • Virtual Home Energy Scores – Generates digital energy scores that help homeowners understand their property's current performance and compare it with similar homes.

  • Community Energy Mapping – Visualizes the distribution of residential energy performance through intuitive city-wide maps, helping identify neighbourhood-level trends and opportunities.

  • Policy and Programme Development – Supports municipalities by identifying the most effective energy conservation measures and revealing patterns based on neighbourhood, housing type, and building age to inform future programmes.

  • Large-Scale Residential Assessments – Delivers property-level insights for single-family homes, duplexes, and small multiplexes while simultaneously analysing thousands of homes across entire communities.

Closing Insights

Virtual Home Label was developed to overcome one of the principal barriers to residential decarbonization: the cost and limited scalability of traditional home energy audits. By combining AI-driven building and energy modelling with geographically specific datasets, the platform enables municipalities and utilities to estimate energy consumption and carbon emissions for entire housing stocks while providing homeowners with personalized retrofit guidance. According to OPEN Technologies, this approach delivers high-accuracy results in a fraction of the time required for conventional assessments.

The platform has already been deployed through collaborations with the City of Saskatoon and the City of Toronto. In Saskatoon, OPEN modelled the estimated energy consumption and carbon emissions of approximately 70,000 ground-oriented homes, powering the city's interactive Home Energy Map. Toronto is also working with OPEN to provide homeowners with personalized insights into their homes' energy and emissions performance.

Virtual Home Label forms part of OPEN Technologies' wider building decarbonization software suite. Alongside GRID, which supports large-building benchmarking and disclosure programmes, and Virtual Audits and Decarbonization Planning, which helps commercial building owners prioritize retrofit investments, Virtual Home Label extends OPEN's AI-driven approach to the residential sector. Together, these platforms provide complementary tools for accelerating decarbonization across both residential and commercial buildings. Pricing is available on request.


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