Honeywell Releases Advance Controls for Buildings at AHR Expo

Today, Honeywell launched Advance Control for Buildings, a platform that pursues company efforts in taking leaps in building controls at the 2024 AHR Expo.

“Buildings today are facing mounting amounts of pressure around safety, operational efficiency and loss of sustainability – we’re trying to push the boundaries of our technological advancement, said Steve Kenny, vice president and general manager of Honeywell Building Management Systems.

Advance Control not only allows for building managers to meet these pressures by allowing users to optimize building operations, but it also takes that aforementioned leap, toward innovation. 

Using the latest technologies and decades of innovation, Advanced Control was designed to automate building management and provide the foundation for a building’s energy efficiency strategy. Automation and machine learning champion a streamlined operation system that features built in cybersecurity and technology for faster network speeds, Honeywell said in a press release. 

Building managers have more control over the efficiency of their buildings, Kenny said, which improves occupant experience while advancing energy management goals.

This rollout also included a partnership between Honeywell and NXP Semiconductors N.V, (NXPI) and Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI).

“NXP really focusing on its advanced semiconductor offering to bring intelligence into our hardware … And at the heart of that is the environment in which we are now building is becoming more and more digitalized ... electrified; and the inputs on both the supply and demand perspective within that building are rapidly changing,” Kenny said. 

In conjunction with those efforts, the partnership with ADI aims to deliver more efficiency and increased intelligence through digital connectivity and advanced signal conversion.

“… Allowing us to become more efficient within the building and to use the infrastructure that's already there -- from a wiring and cabling perspective -- to upgrade a building, which is 20-30 years old and adding the hardware from the Building Management System (BMS) … without having to rip out all the existing infrastructure,” Kenny said. 

Another key part of buildings today is the role of cybersecurity, which causes a significant amount of concern from facility and building managers.  

“ … Going back to that topic around automation and machine learning -- it really has fueled an infrastructure that makes cybersecurity and technology have to deliver faster network speeds … And it's an industry first that we're able to use the existing environment,” Kenny said.