Developing a Big Data artificial intelligence platform to assist the hospitality SME sector to achieve a green recovery from COVID-19 by reducing energy consumption, identifying wastage, controlling costs and becoming more resilient.

目前的能源管理解决方案面向较大的公司，对中小企业来说过于昂贵和复杂。_因此，英国中小企业每年过度消耗86亿GB的能源，相当于**1540万吨二氧化碳排放**(7)__。然而，智能电表的推出一直被推迟，现在预计要到2024(8)_。_一个中小企业企业主可以获得的能源管理解决方案，提供有用的建议，减少能源浪费，并独立于智能电表，将满足一个关键需求--每年的浪费意味着更多不必要的碳排放。如果成功全面推出智能电表，Oak可以将他们的数据整合到我们的产品中。Oak能够很好地满足这一市场需求：**为什么**：加快向可持续未来的过渡**方法**：基于实时数据为中小企业提供可操作的能源洞察，向他们展示如何管理他们的消费以减少和节省能源，使他们的业务在后冰冻世界中更具弹性**什么**：一个负担得起的、可访问的能源优化平台Oak的初始目标市场是酒店业。酒店业受到新冠肺炎的严重影响。根据最近的一份英国酒店业报告，一旦封锁全面实施，销售额环比下降89%，相当于收入损失47亿GB(9)。未来的增长率尚不确定，但很明显，这场大流行将在许多年内继续产生重大影响(10)。这些业务需要新的战略来度过这段时期，并恢复之前的盈利能力。Oak提供了一个理想的解决方案，使他们能够降低固定成本和提高利润率，同时变得更可持续，并帮助实现政府2050年的净零碳目标。我们的目标是开发一种可扩展的机器学习物联网工具，帮助在SBRI第一阶段和第二阶段项目过程中将这些经济和环境赤字减少高达630万GB，并节省相当于10,000吨二氧化碳排放。进一步的经济复苏将通过为企业提供财务稳定来留住现有员工，并可能增加招聘以恢复到感冒前的水平来支持。我们的3年目标是减少英国酒店业10%的赤字，并将我们的业务增长到50名员工和至少700万GB的营业额，同时继续在这个高增长和重要的行业进行研发。

Current energy management solutions are geared toward larger companies and are too expensive and complicated for SMEs_._ As a result, UK SMEs annually overconsume £8.6 billion in energy, which is equivalent to **15.4 million tons of CO2 emission** (7)_._ However, the smart meters rollout has been continuously delayed and is now not expected until 2024 (8)_._ An energy management solution that is accessible to SME business owners, provides useful recommendations to reduce energy wastage and is independent of smart meters, will fulfil a critical need -- every year wasted means more unnecessary carbon emissions. If a successful full rollout of smart meters is ever achieved, OAK can incorporate their data into our offering. OAK is well positioned to fill this market need: **WHY**: To accelerate the transition to a sustainable future **HOW**: Provide SMEs with actionable energy insights, based on real-time data, showing them how to manage their consumption in order to reduce and save, making their businesses more resilient in a post-Covid world **WHAT**: An affordable and accessible energy optimisation platform OAK's initial target market is hospitality. Hospitality businesses have been severely affected by COVID-19\. According to a recent UK Hospitality report, once lockdown was in full operation, month on month sales dropped by 89%, which is equal to £4.7 billion of lost revenue (9). Future growth rates are uncertain, but it is clear that the pandemic will continue to have a significant impact for many years (10). These businesses require new strategies to survive through this period and recover previous profitability. OAK presents an ideal solution that allows them to reduce fixed costs and increase profit margins, all while becoming more sustainable and helping achieve the government's 2050 net zero carbon targets. Our aim is to develop a scalable machine learning IoT tool that helps reduce these economic and environmental deficits by up to £6.3 million over the course of Phase 1 and 2 SBRI projects and save the equivalent of 10,000 tons of CO2 emissions. Further economic recovery will be supported by providing businesses the financial stability to retain their existing staff and potentially make additional hires to return to pre-Covid levels. Our 3-year ambition is to impact 10% of the UK deficit to the hospitality industry and grow our business to 50 employees and turnover of at least £7M whilst continuing R&D in this high growth and important sector.