Delivering real-time forecast of electric vehicle charging demand for building a cost-effective national public charging infrastructure

2020年，英国政府迈出了历史性的一步，决定在2030年之前停止销售新的汽油和柴油汽车。我们的充电基础设施应该增长，以应对支持大规模采用电动汽车的挑战。据估计，基础设施每天需要扩展50多个充电器，以满足未来的需求。由于这种推广压力，地方当局和充电网络运营商有时会优先考虑安装尽可能多的充电点，而不是调查充电点是否位于我们的城市内。然而，选择正确的充电点位置非常重要，因为充电器放置不当可能会影响电动汽车的采用和使用，并破坏更广泛的脱碳目标。我们的项目支持我们的地方当局和充电网络运营商应对这一重大挑战。我们基于云的企业对企业软件解决方案根据设计和采购要求确定城市地区建议的充电点区域。我们的主要创新是开发统计模式识别和自动决策算法，以优化公共充电基础设施的部署。目前，公共充电基础设施领域还没有这样先进的数字解决方案。该项目将把先进的工程技术整合到一个易于使用的开放式解决方案中，这样不仅技术专家，而且编码技术专业知识有限的人也可以使用这样一个创新的软件。我们的商业社区在我们创新解决方案的支持下，可以反过来开发新的产品和服务，进一步加快必要的电动汽车公共充电基础设施的开发。我们的软件将在两个方面帮助地方当局和充电网络提供商：（一）小组成员可自行进行基建规划工作，而无须倚赖其他外来资源，节省时间和金钱，并加快充电站的推广工作，以及（2）规划者将能够制定全面的战略，以更快的速度改善未来部署的充电站的接入和使用，提高充电网络的能力，为尽可能多的电动汽车提供服务。

In 2020 the UK Government took a historic step and decided to end sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030\. Our charging infrastructure should grow to meet the challenge of supporting massive adoption of electric vehicles. It is estimated that the infrastructure needs to expand 50+ chargers per day to meet future demand. As a result of this roll-out pressure, local authorities and charging network operators sometimes prioritise installing as many charge points as possible over investigating whether charging points are located properly within our cities. However, choosing right locations for charge points is very important because improperly placed chargers could affect adoption and usage of electric vehicles and undermine broader decarbonisation goals.Our project supports our local authorities and charging network operators in this grand challenge. Our cloud-based business-to-business software solution determines suggested charge point areas in urban areas based on design and procurement requirements. Our key innovation is the development of statistical pattern recognition and automated decision-making algorithms to optimise the deployment of public charging infrastructure. Such advanced digital solutions currently do not exist in the public charging infrastructure space.This project will integrate advanced engineering techniques into an easy-to-use open solution, so that not only technical experts but also people with limited technical expertise in coding could use such an innovative software. Our business community, powered by our innovative solution, could in return build new product and services that can further accelerate the development of necessary electric vehicle public charging infrastructure.Our software will help local authorities and charging network providers in two ways: (1) their team members would be able to carry out infrastructure planning activities on their own capacity without relying to other external resources, saving time and money, and accelerating charging station roll-out efforts, and (2) planners will be able to develop comprehensive strategies to improve access and usage of future deployed stations at a much faster pace, increasing the capability of the charging network to serve as many electric vehicles as possible.