So right now I have two paths that I could go down.
The first path - in a tenancy context, a government-subsidised system that monitored a house's performance with things like temperature, humidity and airflow in different areas of the house and then identified issues as they arose. This would be a cost effective and data driven way to see actually how much money was being gained and lost in certain situations...especially those with cumulative damage or that which could get worse as time went on, i.e. if the system saw that your washing machine was about to break down, and could prevent you having to spend more money than if you discovered the problem later.
As pointed out by my architect flatmate, this is not a very energy efficient or long term solution but it does work within the current context of renting and shitty New Zealand houses with a myriad of small issues that seem expensive to fix in a large one-shot job, which landlords are already very reluctant to do more than the bare minimum as it is hard to see long term benefits when we are living in the present.
If we were to look even more speculatively at the problem, another more efficient and better long term solution (and slightly different business plan) would be that the system would be installed for one month, to monitor a house's performance in that month (perhaps the worst month of winter or something, to allow for a wide range of weather conditions)...
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