- New digital platform encompasses the
depth and breadth of Johnson Controls offerings in solutions
and services, delivering capabilities focusing on the future
of smart, connected and sustainable buildings.
- Digital integration allows all components of a building to
provide efficient, agile, secure and scalable innovations
for buildings - previously unimaginable.
- Includes a comprehensive suite of COVID-19 solutions for
cleaner air, touchless environments, contact tracing and
improved security with thermal cameras.
OpenBlue – a
complete suite of connected solutions and services that
combine the Company's 135 years of building expertise with
cutting-edge technology. This open digital platform, when
integrated with Johnson Controls core building systems and
enhanced by Fortune 100 technology partners, will make
shared spaces safer, more agile and more sustainable.
Johnson Controls
OpenBlue is the culmination of years of research and
development by the Company's industry-leading engineers and
data scientists around the globe, to create the 'blueprint
for the future' to guide smart, sustainable buildings. The
new suite of connected solutions enables previously
unimaginable occupant experiences, respectful safety and
security, and impactful sustainability, driven by
cutting-edge connected technology.
Connectivity is
critical to achieve this goal: building systems must work
together and communicate to be effective. OpenBlue was
designed with agility, flexibility and scalability in mind,
to enable buildings to become dynamic spaces. In leveraging
the OpenBlue platform, customers will be able to manage
operations more systemically, delivering buildings that have
memory, intelligence and unique identity. The platform
infuses the OpenBlue suite of solutions and services with
award-winning artificial intelligence (AI), combining data
from both inside and outside of buildings.
"How we interact
with our environments and how buildings and shared spaces
are managed for safety and sustainability is top of mind
everywhere, and now more than ever we recognize how complex
these systems are. Johnson Controls has been making
buildings efficient and safe for 135 years, and this year,
our obligation to deliver comprehensive, best in class
solutions to our customers has never been more important,"
said George Oliver, chairman and CEO, Johnson Controls. "The
launch of OpenBlue reflects how we think buildings are
evolving from inflexible assets to dynamic resources. As a
result, this is a critical element of our business strategy,
enabling us to lead customers around the world to the
solutions and services required to transform their spaces
for the future."
OPENBLUE
SOLUTIONS
By combining traditionally separate systems, OpenBlue will
enable the connection of every part of a building to create
new possibilities for smarter, more efficient and
sustainable spaces.
OpenBlue
customers will be able to:
• Respond with dynamic flexibility. OpenBlue will enable
buildings to switch into different modes to address various
critical situations. Modes can include management of
building access, air flow, elevator movement, door locks,
lighting, and open collaboration, as well as other
environmental and safety settings.
• Deploy
COVID-19 solutions. OpenBlue connects Johnson Controls
products, technology and services to help customers get back
to work as safely and efficiently as possible. These
solutions and services include contact tracing, social
distance monitoring, thermal cameras, clean air, touchless
environments, compliance and reporting management, energy
optimization, advanced safety monitoring and more.
• Select from
tiered services for their needs. OpenBlue will contain a
suite of tiered, AI-infused service solutions delivering
advanced capabilities such as remote diagnostics, predictive
maintenance, advanced risk assessments, compliance
monitoring and more.
• Security at
the center of the solutions. OpenBlue was designed with
safety at its core and will enable customers to access
secure by design solutions. Each of the OpenBlue offerings
are developed with robust design protocols for security and
privacy process.
• Increase
energy savings and improve indoor air quality (IAQ). By
connecting HVAC equipment with new data and AI, users of the
platform can expect 20-60 percent cost savings by optimizing
the performance of the full HVAC system across energy costs
and IAQ parameters.
DIGITAL
PLATFORM AND PARTNERSHIPS
Johnson Controls OpenBlue platform brings together
traditional operational technology, existing IT systems and
cloud applications infused with AI and cutting-edge
technology such as digital twins, enabling insight,
integration and collaboration. OpenBlue will enable
operating technologies to seamlessly communicate and
integrate across a broad range of systems.
"Connectivity is
the key to making buildings work harder for us," said Mike
Ellis, executive vice president, chief customer and digital
officer, Johnson Controls. "This new suite of solutions will
enable previously unimaginable outcomes for our customers by
connecting buildings to unique software capabilities,
providing insight to deliver high customer value. We are
partnering with a number of leading technology companies and
thought leaders in various sectors to roll-out tailored
solutions in the coming months."
A NEW JOHNSON
CONTROLS BRAND
"The launch of OpenBlue is a radical approach to dynamic
spaces," said Phil Clement, vice president and chief
marketing officer, Johnson Controls. "The brand identity was
created with a number of factors in mind: Open refers to an
optimistic future and the platform's open architecture to
enable products to work with various solutions. The color
blue is core to Johnson Controls branding for the past 135
years and gives a nod to our strong heritage in the
buildings space."
OpenBlue
technology experts will lead proprietary 'OpenBlue –
Blueprint of the Future' customer workshops, thought
leadership webinars and insight sessions to help customers
reimagine the possibilities of built environments and map
out capabilities for spaces and places to power a unique
customer mission.
To read more
about OpenBlue and stay updated as new solutions roll out,
please visit:
JohnsonControls.com/OpenBlue.
