- Smarter Solutions: New AI capabilities offer smarter, more
insightful solutions.
- Autonomous Controls: Enhanced autonomous building
controls allow customers to run buildings with less manual
intervention than ever before.
- Improved User Interface: Updated design and workflows
simplify building management.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 12,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls,
(NYSE:JCI) the global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable
building solutions, today announced significantly expanded AI
capabilities in its OpenBlue Enterprise Manager suite of digital
solutions, part of the OpenBlue digital ecosystem. The updates,
available today, include the first customer-facing generative AI
applications, more autonomous building controls, and a
significantly improved user experience. These updates pave the way
for additional AI enhancements in 2025, focused on globally
accepted performance standards, optimized equipment performance for
cost savings and enhanced regulatory compliance.
The expanded AI features take data insights to the next level
and build on the measurable impact customers are already seeing
when utilizing OpenBlue. With OpenBlue Enterprise Manager guiding
facility improvements, coupled with equipment upgrades and
proactive services, customers are benefitting from up to 30%
reduction in energy spend, up to 20% reduction in maintenance
spend, and 10% more optimized space utilization - a win for the
environment and the bottom line.
"The expansion of customer-facing AI features into Johnson
Controls OpenBlue marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of
building management technology," said Johnson Controls Chief
Technology Officer Vijay Sankaran.
"These new AI-driven features not only enhance operational
efficiency and sustainability, but also empower building owners and
operators with unprecedented levels of insight and control. We are
committed to pioneering innovations that drive automation and
create smarter, more responsive environments for our
customers."
A recently commissioned Forrester Consulting study found that
90% of respondents say their building systems are not fully
integrated, costing time, people and money. The expanded features
in OpenBlue provide clearer insights and better performance,
including:
- Integrated generative AI tools that proactively recommend
impactful energy savings projects.
- Major upgrades to the user experience with a focus on
personalization, improved design, and compliance with a higher
level of accessibility standards.
- Expanded data insights that allow users to see details on
building visitors throughout the entire portfolio of buildings,
improving the understanding and management of occupants.
- Enhanced indoor air quality monitoring and sensor analytics to
support smarter and healthier buildings.
- Automatically adjusting setpoints based on fault diagnostics,
saving energy, and accelerate capture of potential savings
Turning Insights into Energy Savings using Generative
AI
OpenBlue now has integrated generative AI tools that proactively
recommend the most impactful energy savings projects, reducing the
need to analyze large amounts of building data. The system
anticipates needs, like analyzing energy usage based on live
weather data, to create actionable insights, helping customers
achieve energy savings and reduction in carbon emissions.
"Our customers have consistently told us that one of the
challenges with AI is they are unsure of what questions to ask a
Generative AI chatbot about their building," said Julius Marchwicki, vice president, digital
product management, Johnson Controls. "Our generative AI feature
automatically constructs the right prompts that are built from our
decades of experience in the commercial buildings space."
The platform also tracks energy conservation projects across
over 130 categories, improving data management and managing
decarbonization strategies. It supports utility bills management
with automatic error correction, reducing billing gaps.
Driving Toward Autonomous Buildings
New features in OpenBlue are driving forward the future of
autonomous buildings and allow customers to run their buildings
with less manual intervention than ever before. The system can
improve productivity through automating processes that
traditionally have been manual. It can adjust setpoints based on
fault diagnostics, saving energy, carbon, and accelerating
potential cost savings. Users can enable autonomous actions or use
the system to get advice, while setting their own operational
constraints. It also provides detailed information about equipment
performance and trends, from a broad view down to individual pieces
of equipment. In this release, OpenBlue autonomous control can now
be applied to a broader range of central utility plant designs.
OpenBlue now supports digitalization of Standard Operating
Procedures, speeding up workflows triggered by various events. New
workflows can be quickly published to support security and service
needs, supporting both manual and autonomous tasks.
Refreshed User Experience
This release includes major upgrades to the user experience,
focused on design, navigation and accessibility. With increased
focus on space utilization, the system provides an even clearer
picture of how spaces are actually used by building occupants.
Detailed visitor analytics are available throughout a portfolio of
buildings, improving the understanding of visitor activities, along
with intelligent planning when anomalies occur. Operators can
schedule services, like cleaning, based on occupancy insights,
saving resources and money. Updates also include improved indoor
air quality monitoring with a broad ecosystem of sensor
partners.
Unlocking Building Performance
OpenBlue Enterprise Manager allows customers to unlock the
performance of their building with real-time data visibility. A
single pane of glass with advanced analytics, visualization and
controls, accelerates operational outcomes, meets certification and
regulatory compliance needs while ensuring data security and
privacy.
Enhancements to OpenBlue advance the ongoing Johnson Controls
transformation as a pure-play provider of comprehensive solutions
for commercial buildings. To learn more about how Johnson Controls
OpenBlue is transforming buildings from static entities into smart
assets visit: https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/openblue
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About Johnson Controls:
At Johnson Controls
(NYSE:JCI), we transform the environments where people live, work,
learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and
sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance
of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.
Building on a proud history of nearly 140 years of innovation,
we deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as
healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums,
manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive
digital offering.
Today, with a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150
countries, Johnson Controls offers the world`s largest portfolio of
building technology and software as well as service solutions from
some of the most trusted names in the industry.
Visit www.johnsoncontrols.com for more information and follow
@Johnson Controls on social platforms.
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