We deliver clarity and boost innovation by harnessing mathematics
New from the SI
Capabilities
With over twenty years’ experience across a wide variety of business sectors, we are experts in optimisation, forecasting, artificial intelligence and algorithm auditing.
Mathematics underpins everything we do because we understand its versatility; we know that its application can boost business and accelerate growth for our clients across society, industry and government.
What we do-
31 Spectrum auction verifications worldwide worth over £108bn.
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85 Models / algorithms designed by our world-leading mathematicians.
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75 technical workshop facilitations for R&D and innovation strategies.
We work with a mix of clients and industrial sectors
Selected projects
We offer organisations the agility they need today to make strategic decisions rapidly and with certainty. We investigate core processes to enable our clients to maintain commercial advantage and make decisions with confidence.
Developing algorithms to optimise satellite communications
Rapid growth in demand for their services prompted Inmarsat to seek an optimisation partner to ensure their satellites remain operating at peak capacity. Smith Institute’s expertise in algorithm design and mathematical optimisation combined with our particular knowledge of the complexities of radio communications spectrum management made us an attractive choice. We worked with Inmarsat to construct and benchmark an optimised series of algorithms that maximise spare capacity responsively and minimise unmet demand, enhancing the customer experience and protecting Inmarsat’s bottom line.
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Assuring data privacy in care home analytics
Like many analytics companies, Carterwood must strike a careful balance between data utility and individual privacy for their digital platform. They need to share enough meaningful information to be worthwhile for their customers, while ensuring they do not compromise the privacy of the individual sources that contributed the sensitive data.
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How the Smith Institute is helping EDF safely deliver low-carbon energy to the UK
To better understand graphite changes and to bolster investment and inspection programmes, EDF selected the Smith Institute to develop bespoke software for predicting the future degradation of graphite bricks which lie in the cores of the UK's nuclear reactor fleet.
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Using explainable AI to reduce risk and improve efficiency in GB electricity reserve setting
We used an explainable AI solution to help National Grid ESO potentially save over 300 megawatts of reserve each settlement period (30 minutes) by effectively determining the optimal amount of reserve to hold versus demand.
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Providing early detections of acute kidney injury
Innovate UK’s Digital Catapult provides funding to help businesses commercialise innovation, explore and test new products and seek expert advice and guidance. It was in the latter capacity that Smith Institute recently supported a grant recipient called Flush-Tech with a solution that can potentially improve the lives of millions of people globally.
Read case studyBuilding a team to harness the power of data in transport
We guided a major public transport organisation through the process of adopting a data-led business approach before helping them to build a world-class in-house data science team.
Read case studyUsing machine learning to predict catering demand
Each year, airline and rail companies serve millions of cups of tea, biscuits and sandwiches to passengers. Transport executives know that getting customers their choice of food and beverages at the right time along the journey increases customer satisfaction and reduces the risk of staff abuse. We used machine learning to develop a demand forecasting tool to enable more efficient and effective stock ordering, increasing profitability and reducing waste.
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Managing uncertainty to forecast supply and demand
By leveraging our extensive experience in forecasting and mathematical modelling, we are helping NGESO to manage uncertainty and make more economical and secure balancing decisions.
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Modernising Optimisation Algorithms for the Control Room
We are collaborating with NGESO on integrating a first version of a modernised dispatch algorithm into the control room and in the development of new functionalities which will enable the transition to zero carbon electricity network operation.
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Modelling the Degradation of Earthworks
The Smith Institute conducted an independent review of Network Rail’s methodology for estimating the rates of degradation of various earthworks.
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Predicting the weather’s impact on demand
For Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), predicting how the weather influences customers’ choices is critical to understanding underlying category performance.
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Evaluating railway performance
The Smith Institute provided Resonate with independent, quantitative evidence for the impact of their traffic management solution on rail operations and performance.
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Evaluating variability in train driving
The Smith Institute worked with RSSB to undertake a data-driven investigation into train driving variability in different adhesion conditions.
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From TV Channels to Mobile Wireless
The Smith Institute has recently been involved in successfully delivering the most complicated spectrum repacking exercise ever undertaken, in the US Broadcast Incentive Auction.
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Forecasting UK peak gas demand
The Smith Institute helped the National Grid to conduct an independent review of the technical basis of the 1 in 20 peak demand forecasting.
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Adaptive bidding strategies
With unparalleled expertise in spectrum auctions worldwide, the Smith Institute created a bid reconstruction tool for Vodafone in preparation for the 2015 Indian multi-band spectrum auction.
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Optimising lettuce growth
Smith Institute helped G's Growers make the best use of increasing volumes of collected data and formulate better decisions to optimise production and minimise waste of Iceberg lettuce crops.
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Predicting the energy output from embedded generation
The Smith Institute created innovative predictive models to provide National Grid with greater visibility of type and behaviour of the embedded generation that is connected to the distribution networks and help to manage electricity system more efficiently and securely.
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Uncertainty of natural hazards
The Smith Institute organised 26 events, established 24 collaborative projects and created a network of over 1,000 people, including representatives from more than 100 companies and government departments.
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Austrian spectrum auction
The Smith Institute worked closely with RTR to test and verify the correct operation of their Spectrum Auction software.
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Verifying algorithms
The Smith Institute designed scenarios to test the implementations of Ofcom’s spectrum auction rules and verify correct operation.
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How did ISED ensure auction integrity?
The Smith Institute provided quality assurance to ISED, Canada's spectrum awards in the 700MHz and in the 2500MHz frequency bands.
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