Dive Brief:
- Honeywell Technologies on Monday unveiled AI-powered building intelligence, fire and life safety and security upgrades to its Forge Cognition platform. The upgrades, called EBI One, build on agentic AI and simulation features it added in October.
- The company also announced low-level carbon monoxide monitoring and fire safety tools, including an incident command software and system sensor detector technology that can differentiate fire signatures to reduce unwanted nuisance alarms.
- Honeywell says these upgrades show how it is rolling out AI across its tech stack and its new positioning as a building-technology-focused organization following the spin-off of its aerospace business earlier this year.
Dive Insight:
Honeywell Technologies increased building automation segment revenue 8% year over year in the third quarter of 2026. Revenue gains were driven by double-digit growth in fire and security products and a bolstered product introduction cycle, the company said during its earnings call.
The Forge platform is key to Honeywell’s growth, according to CEO Vimal Kapur.
Launched on Oct. 14, Forge Cognition is a self-contained agentic AI and simulation platform for facility operations across buildings, campuses and industrial operations. The platform was developed in tandem with Nvidia and Dell Technologies and is intended to help operators make their infrastructure more intelligent while leveraging AI and computing technologies.
EBI is a building management system and master systems integration platform that unifies HVAC, security, fire and life safety, lighting and energy management into a single centralized interface.
Together, EBI One and Forge Cognition include several enhancements for building operators, the company says, including alarm assist, which uses machine learning to interpret and classify alarms; AI assist, a conversational AI tool that can extract building insights from EBI operational data and documentation; an open integration network that lets users build low-code or no-code integration applications on site; and faster upgrades through a redesigned architecture that speeds up upgrades and reduces the risk of data loss.
The integration also features a browser interface that allows operators to access and use EBI One Command and Control “on the go,” Honeywell said.
Honeywell Technologies also gave notice it is rolling out several upgrades to other fire and life safety products. It said in early 2027 it will release the LenelS2 Adaptive Intelligence Suite in early 2027 that will provide AI-weighted alarm management, alarm contextualization, natural-language reporting, anomalyanomoly detection and guided workflows that are designed to reduce alarm fatigue and improve situational awareness.
The suite will layer contextual AI onto existing platforms, starting with LenelS2 OnGuard, the company said. Kapur mentioned during earnings that the company is increasingly leveraging LenelS2, which it acquired two years ago as part of its purchase of Carrier Global Corp.’s Global Access Solutions business.
“We’re benefiting from the very premium position of LenelS2,” Kapur said in October. “They continue to perform, with double-digit growth rates across the board.”
Also in early 2027, the company expects to release Niagara 5, the next generation of its framework that enables systems from any building or vendor to connect across HVAC, fire, security, access control, lighting and energy systems.
“The trusted, open and contextualized view of all building system assets, combined with Forge Cognition intelligence, reduces engineering and commissioning efforts and helps building owners, system integrators and operators accelerate the transition from connected buildings to increasingly autonomous operations,” Honeywell Technologies said in the release.
