EcoGrade at thesqua.re
I've been advising thesqua.re for a while now on matters relating to data and AI. Most recently our lengthy project on sustainability is now coming to fruition. In the business accommodation rental market there's a real need to understand the carbon and general sustainability implications of your stay, which might be for a week or more in a new city. Pick inefficient accomodation and you're not really living up to your company's reputation for green choices. But there is simply nothing on the market that provides address-specific details in this respect. Perhaps there's a gross approximation of a CO2 figure, but we're shown that most of these can be an order of magnitude wrong and sometimes identical figures are given for all apartments of the same type in the entire country - not exactly providing informed choice for the consumer! Our solution is EcoGrade. We've spent several years compiling the best possible data across multiple countries to provide the best and most specific sustainability metric in the industry today. We've been winning prizes for the work - hurrah! We're now starting to look at how AI can help suplement the data when insufficient information is available. Hopefully by doing this we can improve sustainable choice and also encourage all those landlords to improve the efficiency of their accommodation!
