Innovative autonomous building management with AI innovations

Johnson Controls solutions offer new AI capabilities and more insightful solutions in transforming building management with an AI-driven OpenBlue Ecosystem. Autonomous building controls allow customers to run buildings with less manual intervention than ever before. The expanded AI features take data insights to the next level.

Johnson Controls expanded AI capabilities in its OpenBlue Enterprise Manager suite of digital solutions. It is part of the OpenBlue digital ecosystem. The updates include the first customer-facing generative AI applications, more autonomous building controls, and an improved user experience. These updates pave the way for additional AI enhancements during 2025, focused on globally accepted performance standards, optimised equipment performance for cost savings and enhanced regulatory compliance.

The expanded AI features take data insights to the next level. With OpenBlue Enterprise Manager guiding facility coupled with equipment upgrades and proactive services, customers benefit is up to 30 percent reduction in energy spend, up to 20 percent reduction in maintenance spend, and 10 percent more optimised space utilisation – a win for the environment and the bottom line.

Johnson Controls Chief Technology Officer Vijay Sankaran said, “The expansion of customer-facing AI features into Johnson Controls OpenBlue marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of building management technology. These new AI-driven features enhance operational efficiency and sustainability and 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.”

The expanded features in OpenBlue provide clear insights and better performance.  

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 reducing carbon emissions.

Julius Marchwicki, vice president of digital product management at Johnson Controls, said, “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. Our generative AI feature automatically constructs the right prompts built from our decades of experience in the commercial buildings space.”

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 by automating processes that traditionally have been manual. It can adjust setpoints based on fault diagnostics, saving energy, and carbon, and accelerating potential cost savings. Users can enable autonomous actions. It also provides detailed information about equipment performance and trends.

User experience

This release includes major upgrades to the user experience, focused on design, navigation and accessibility. With an increased focus on space utilisation, 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. Updates 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, visualisation and controls, accelerates operational outcomes and meets certification and regulatory compliance needs while ensuring data security and privacy.

OpenBlue autonomous control can now be applied to a broader range of central utility plant designs. OpenBlue now supports the digitalisation of Standard Operating Procedures, speeding up workflows triggered by various events.

To know more, https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/openblue