HONEYWELL LAUNCHES NEW SUITE OF SOLUTIONS TO HELP OPTIMIZE DATA CENTER UPTIME AND PRODUCTIVITY

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Honeywell has launched its Data Center Suite, a new portfolio of software solutions aimed at enhancing operational efficiency, uptime, and sustainability in data centers. Announced on September 13, 2022, the suite leverages a unified data lake to provide actionable insights for facility managers. It includes tools like Data Center Manager, Portfolio View, and Honeywell Forge Digitized Maintenance, which aim to improve visibility in sustainability KPIs and reduce costs. The rising demand for data centers underscores the relevance of this launch in today's economy.

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• Launch of the Data Center Suite aimed at improving uptime and operational efficiency.
• Integration of operational technology and information technology to enhance situational awareness.
• User-friendly tools designed to minimize human error and improve overall efficiency.
• Focus on sustainability KPIs like power usage effectiveness and carbon footprint reduction.

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Honeywell Data Center Suite delivers an innovative user experience, increases resiliency in operations, improves worker productivity and provides visibility into critical sustainability KPIs

ATLANTA, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON), a global leader in connected buildings, today launched its Data Center Suite, a portfolio of outcome-based software solutions that help data center managers and owners optimize uptime, worker productivity, critical asset health and operational expenses while providing better visibility into sustainability KPIs.

Honeywell data centers offerings allow facility managers to securely derive actionable insights from their own data.

Data centers play an ever more critical role in keeping the global economy productive, while closer to home they support the conveniences of daily life — from working remotely to shopping online. By digitalizing, aggregating and analyzing disparate critical systems into a unified data lake, the analytics produced by the on-premise Honeywell Data Center Suite provides operators more holistic, actionable information to help boost efficiency and decrease costs. Based on the open architecture Niagara Framework, it combines data from both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) infrastructure, securely enhancing situational awareness at site level as well as global fleet level, enabling condition-based maintenance to reduce downtime risk and operational expenses.

Given the exponentially increasing demand – as of April 2022, hyperscale operators planned to build 314 new facilities[i] – data center managers are often forced to do more with less, while at the same time being pressured to improve uptime, reduce costs and minimize energy consumption. User-friendly tools that automate processes can help reduce the chance for human error, which caused major outages over the last three years among 40% of organizations surveyed by the Uptime Institute,[ii] often driven by ignored or inadequate procedures. It can also help improve a data center's overall efficiency.

The Honeywell Data Center Suite's tools include:

• Data Center Manager that integrates delivers situational site-level awareness of both OT (critical power and thermal assets) and critical IT assets data in a vendor-agnostic dashboard;
• Portfolio View that enables data center owners to monitor global network operations holistically via an on-premise tool across a fleet of data centers and make data-driven decisions to better achieve their uptime and sustainability goals; and
• Honeywell Forge Digitized Maintenance, a software-as-a-service solution that monitors data center assets and detects early signs of anomalous intrinsic operations before it leads to potentially costly downtime.

"Demand for data storage, transfer and processing is insatiable worldwide, which makes it more challenging than ever to run and scale these facilities effectively from a design, build and operations perspective," said Chris McLaughlin, vice president of offering management, Honeywell Building Technologies. "Honeywell is expanding its offerings in data centers to allow facility managers to derive actionable insights securely from their own data to help protect uptime, manage maintenance, reduce energy use and achieve scaling agility."

Improve data center situational awareness, uptime and operational efficiency

The Data Center Manager allows proactive monitoring and management of critical infrastructure by aggregating OT and IT data – which previously had to be collected manually from disparate systems – into a single source. The solution helps operators diagnose alarms and root causes of issues, execute workflows to triage situations, improve response times and reduce human error potential. Featuring a persona-optimized user experience to minimize the technician's cognitive load, it proactively generates situation-specific recommendations to better preserve uptime and maintain service-level agreement (SLA) compliance. It also provides insights into the site's energy and carbon use.  

Monitor Uptime and Sustainability KPIs across a fleet of facilities

Portfolio View integrates with Data Center Manager to allows users to securely monitor a global fleet of data centers. It allows easy navigation from a fleet-level view down to individual sites, generating a KPI-based score for each site that profiles metrics such as uptime; critical sustainability KPIs such as power usage effectiveness (PUE), carbon usage effectiveness (CUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE); space and capacity utilization; and energy consumption. Portfolio View also generates logs and reports to keep the C-suite apprised of fleetwide performance and trends, as well as individual site anomalies.

Increase predictability, reliability and lifespan of critical assets

Data centers require uninterrupted power and reliable cooling systems to prevent costly downtime. Honeywell Forge Digitized Maintenance introduces a condition-based maintenance strategy to detect early, intrinsic signs of critical asset problems before it results in system downtime. It can help facility managers improve uptime and resiliency, increase asset service life, and reduce maintenance and energy costs. Advanced fault-detection analytics provide users with real-time, actionable intelligence on asset performance, pre-failure alerts and benchmarks for zone temperature control, asset availability, energy consumption and service case performance. Additionally, the cloud-based Honeywell Forge Digitized Maintenance can be coupled with remote building management to further deliver an outcome-based, service level agreement performance.

About Honeywell Building Technologies

Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) is transforming the way every building operates to help improve the quality of life. We are a leading building controls company with operations in more than 75 countries supported by a global channel partner network. Commercial building owners and operators use our hardware, software and analytics to help create safe, efficient and productive facilities. Our solutions and services are used in more than 10 million buildings worldwide.

Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.

ⁱ Data Center Frontier, After record growth in 2021, data centers are building bigger for 2022, by Rich Miller, April 1, 2022. [Accessed July 29, 2022]
ⁱⁱ Uptime Institute, Uptime Institute's 2022 Outage Analysis Finds Downtime Costs and Consequences Worsening as Industry Efforts to Curb Outage Frequency Fall Short, June 8, 2022 [Accessed August 29, 2022]

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FAQ

What is the Honeywell Data Center Suite?

The Honeywell Data Center Suite is a portfolio of outcome-based software solutions designed to optimize uptime, worker productivity, and operational expenses in data centers.

When was the Honeywell Data Center Suite launched?

The Honeywell Data Center Suite was launched on September 13, 2022.

How does the Data Center Suite improve operational efficiency?

The suite integrates data from operational technology and information technology, providing actionable insights that enhance situational awareness and reduce costs.

What tools are included in the Honeywell Data Center Suite?

The suite includes the Data Center Manager, Portfolio View, and Honeywell Forge Digitized Maintenance, each designed to monitor and optimize various aspects of data center operations.

How does Honeywell's Data Center Suite address sustainability?

The suite provides visibility into sustainability KPIs, such as power usage effectiveness and carbon usage effectiveness, helping data centers minimize their environmental impact.