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.

开发大数据人工智能平台，通过减少能源消耗、识别浪费、控制成本和增强弹性，协助酒店业中小企业从 COVID-19 中实现绿色复苏。

• 批准号: 82218
• 金额: $ 7.31万
• 依托单位: THE OAK NETWORK UK LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=82218
• 关键词: Developing; Big; Data; artificial; intelligence

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.

目前的能源管理解决方案面向大型企业，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86亿英镑的能源，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年（8）_。一个能源管理解决方案，可供中小企业业主使用，提供有用的建议，以减少能源浪费，是独立于智能电表，将满足一个关键的需求-每年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已做好充分准备，满足这一市场需求：** 为什么 **：加速向可持续发展的未来过渡 ** 如何 **：基于实时数据，为中小企业提供可操作的能源见解，向他们展示如何管理消费，以减少和节省能源，使其业务在后Covid世界中更具弹性 ** 什么 **：一个负担得起的和可访问的能源优化平台OAK的最初目标市场是酒店。酒店业务受到COVID-19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%，相当于损失了47亿英镑的收入。未来的增长率尚不确定，但很明显，疫情将持续多年产生重大影响（10）。这些业务需要新的战略来度过这一时期并恢复以前的盈利能力。OAK提供了一个理想的解决方案，使他们能够降低固定成本，提高利润率，同时变得更加可持续，并帮助实现政府的2050年净零碳目标。我们的目标是开发一个可扩展的机器学习物联网工具，帮助减少这些经济和环境赤字高达£ 630万在第1和第2阶段SBRI项目的过程中，并节省相当于10，000吨的二氧化碳排放。为企业提供财务稳定性，以留住现有员工，并可能增加招聘，以恢复到新冠肺炎前的水平，将有助于经济进一步复苏。我们的三年目标是将英国酒店业的赤字减少10%，并将我们的业务发展到50名员工，营业额至少达到700万英镑，同时继续在这个高增长和重要的行业进行研发。