Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON), a global leader in connected buildings, today launched its Data Centre Suite, a portfolio of outcome-based software solutions that help data centre managers and owners optimise uptime, worker
productivity, critical asset health and operational expenses while providing better visibility into sustainability KPIs.
Data centres 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 digitalising, aggregating and analysing
disparate critical systems into a unified data lake, the analytics produced by the on-premises Honeywell Data Centre
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 centre managers are often forced to do more with less, while at the same time being pressured to improve uptime,
reduce costs and minimise 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 per cent of organisations surveyed by the Uptime Institute,[ii] often driven by ignored or inadequate procedures. It can also help improve a data centre’s overall efficiency.
The Honeywell Data Centre Suite’s tools include:Data Centre 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 centre owners to monitor global network operations holistically via an on-premises tool across a
fleet of data centres and make data-driven decisions to better achieve their uptime and sustainability goals; andHoneywell Forge Digitised Maintenance, a software-as-a-service solution that monitors data centre 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 centres
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 centre situational awareness, uptime and operational efficiency
The Data Centre 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-optimised user experience to minimise 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 Centre Manager to allows users to securely monitor a global fleet of data centres.
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 utilisation; 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 centres require uninterrupted power and reliable cooling systems to prevent costly downtime. Honeywell Forge
Digitised 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 Digitised 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,
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