Building flexibility. Without remote control.
You manage the portfolio and market. We prepare the buildings.
ORLA is the whole-building energy autopilot. It coordinates equipment as one system and uses that understanding to determine a feasible change in demand. Every building has its own ORLA agent. The VPP receives a flexibility envelope, predicted outcome and measured result.
Flexibility is not created in the VPP. It starts locally.
VPP participation is one application of ORLA, not a separate product. The foundation is the same: understanding interactions and coordinating the whole building. Explore the ORLA autopilot →
The VPP says what it needs. The building decides how.
We integrate devices, learn site behaviour, calculate a safe flexibility envelope and turn the VPP signal into local actions. Then we measure the real response.
Your platform owns the market and portfolio relationship. HomeMind owns building-side intelligence and safe execution.
Market, portfolio and settlement
- publishes a need, event or price
- selects assets and manages the portfolio
- operates the market product and settlement
- retains its brand and customer relationship
Building, availability and delivery
- integrates heterogeneous devices
- enforces comfort and local constraints
- calculates a live flexibility envelope
- executes events and supplies M&V
The potential exists. The execution layer is missing.
Small and mid-sized buildings remain invisible to flexibility markets not because they lack controllable loads, but because devices are fragmented and their live availability is unknown.
No common language
- different protocols and devices
- incomparable data
- no repeatable onboarding route
No reliable offer
- static declarations instead of live state
- rebound cost left unmodelled
- unknown confidence and comfort margin
of commercial building peak load may be temporarily managed according to PNNL. HomeMind helps turn a sector benchmark into a measured site-level resource. PNNL source ↗
Stop guessing centrally. Let buildings submit offers.
Every ORLA agent runs locally and understands its own site. The portfolio is built from offers that are current, owner-constrained and ready to execute.
The owner defines comfort, hours, devices, price and priorities.
Each building calculates availability from live state and forecasts.
The platform publishes reduction or increase, location and timing.
ORLA selects devices and response strategy for every site.
The VPP receives power, energy, timing, deviation, comfort and rebound.
Not raw device access. A qualified response.
For every site, the Flexibility API can expose the parameters needed to select, activate and settle the resource.
Available power
Increase or reduction, activation window, duration and response time.
Comfort margin
Distance from local limits and operational constraints.
Confidence
Probability of delivering the declared response.
Outcome and rebound
Baseline, delivery, deviation and post-event recovery cost.
Control stays local. Aggregation can be global.
Raw data and detailed control logic can remain inside the building. The VPP receives the parameters required for delivery and settlement.
Smaller attack surface
No permanent direct access to every thermostat and controller is required.
Offline resilience
Local autonomy survives temporary internet loss, with existing automation as fallback.
Live model
Availability reflects the current building state rather than a one-time profile.
Data protection
Operational data can stay on-prem while the VPP receives only the required outcome.
Local safeguards
The existing BMS, thermostat or controller remains a safety layer.
Visible rebound
The offer includes likely energy recovery after activation.
Heterogeneous devices. One VPP interface.
Every device does not need a dedicated aggregator protocol. ORLA translates a shared energy need into actions the local installation can execute.
Every new installation can become a new VPP node.
Scale through HVAC installers, BMS integrators, manufacturers, facility-management firms and repeatable building portfolios. Existing partner customers become a natural pipeline for further deployments.
HomeMind as the building-side flexibility layer.
The modular offer can run under the HomeMind, VPP operator, manufacturer or integrator brand.
ORLA Edge Agent
Local learning, prediction, control, constraints and fallback.
Flexibility API
Availability, events, confirmations, execution and owner conditions.
Portfolio Service
Aggregate multiple building offers before the core VPP platform.
Device integrations
Home Assistant, BACnet, Modbus, OEM systems and local controllers.
M&V and baseline
Measure response, energy, power, comfort and rebound.
Deployment Kit
Procedures, tests, system images and training — including white-label delivery.
Prove bottom-up flexibility on real buildings.
Together we define the product, integrate representative sites, start in shadow mode and only then run controlled activations.
Response, timing, communication, baseline, M&V and settlement.
Select representative installations and use cases.
Calculate availability and simulate response without control.
Safe events with measurement of real building response.
M&V and a repeatable deployment package for partners.
The outcome must be measurable.
Thousands of locally intelligent buildings.
You provide market access, aggregation and settlement. HomeMind provides local intelligence, integrations and safe building-side execution.
VPP integration is currently offered as a partner pilot. Available power, reliability and economics require validation on real sites.