Honeywell Technologies has joined forces with NVIDIA and Dell Technologies to bring agentic artificial intelligence into buildings, campuses and industrial facilities, launching a new platform designed to predict equipment failures, improve energy efficiency and streamline operations.

 

The platform, Forge Cognition, combines AI agents with real-time digital twins to help facility operators detect problems, simulate operating conditions and coordinate actions across existing systems. 

 

The technology aims to improve asset reliability, reduce operational inefficiencies and maintain occupant comfort without requiring customers to replace their existing infrastructure.

 

Honeywell Technologies said the platform is being piloted across multiple sites, including NVIDIA’s Voyager campus in Santa Clara, California, where early results point to a potential reduction of up to 90% in unnecessary alerts and energy and utility consumption savings of up to 10%.

 

“The physical world demands more than a powerful AI model. It requires AI to understand how systems actually operate and interact—that is where the next breakthrough is happening,” said Suresh Venkatarayalu, Chief Technology Officer, Honeywell Technologies. 

 

“Forge Cognition combines AI with operational context and engineering expertise, opening a new era of intelligent operations where AI can analyze, recommend and act alongside people.”

 

Facility operators routinely contend with large volumes of equipment data and alarms, making it difficult to distinguish critical problems from routine events, anticipate failures and optimise energy consumption.

 

Forge Cognition seeks to address these challenges by connecting AI agents to existing building and industrial systems, using operational data and Honeywell Technologies’ engineering expertise to interpret equipment behaviour and coordinate responses.

 

The platform’s initial applications include automated alarm classification to help teams prioritise genuine problems, predictive asset-health monitoring to identify emerging HVAC equipment issues, and digital-twin simulations that allow operators to assess potential energy-saving measures while maintaining comfortable indoor conditions.

 

Designed to work alongside human operators, Forge Cognition supports manual, semi-autonomous and autonomous operating modes. Customers retain control over the level of automation, with the ability to override the system at any time.

 

The platform combines Honeywell Technologies’ industrial expertise with NVIDIA’s AI models and accelerated computing technologies, alongside infrastructure and services from Dell Technologies.

 

NVIDIA’s Nemotron open models power AI agents that interpret operational data, including an agent designed to classify building-management alarms and improve through operator feedback. NVIDIA Omniverse libraries support physically accurate simulations, enabling teams to model building performance and test operational changes.

 

The platform also uses NVIDIA Cosmos open models and the NVIDIA Metropolis VSS Blueprint to help vision AI agents analyse, search and summarise live or recorded sensor data. NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs power the platform, with expansion planned to support far-edge deployments using NVIDIA DGX Spark.

 

Dell Technologies provides the underlying infrastructure through the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. This includes Dell PowerEdge XE servers, Dell AI Data Platform data and storage engines, cyber-resilience solutions and services to support the development, training and deployment of AI models and agents.

 

“Physical AI is bringing new intelligence to the complex systems that run our buildings and industrial facilities,” said Deepu Talla, vice president of robotics and edge AI at NVIDIA. 

 

'Honeywell Technologies is combining NVIDIA AI and simulation technologies with its deep industrial expertise to help customers anticipate equipment issues, improve reliability and energy efficiency across the infrastructure they already operate.”

 

"The next wave of AI innovation will be driven by intelligent systems that can reason, learn and act in the context of real-world operations," said John Roese, global chief technology and chief AI officer, Dell Technologies. "The Dell AI Factory provides the infrastructure and services that support Honeywell's vision for intelligent physical operations."

 

Honeywell Technologies is piloting Forge Cognition at NVIDIA’s Voyager campus, the Fairmont Hotel in Dubai, NEX Mall in Singapore, Vanderbilt University in the United States, and its own campuses in Bengaluru and Richardson, Texas.

 

The deployments offer early examples of how the technology could be rolled out across Honeywell Technologies’ installed base of more than 300,000 sites.

 

At NVIDIA’s Voyager campus, the company reports four key outcomes: 

 

Up to 90% fewer unnecessary alerts: AI-powered alarm management helps operations teams focus on events requiring attention.

 

Predictive maintenance: Real-time HVAC monitoring generates equipment-health predictions to help teams plan maintenance and reduce the risk of unplanned downtime.

 

Up to 10% potential energy savings: Digital-twin analysis has identified opportunities to reduce energy and utility consumption through improved operating conditions.

 

Comfort scores above 95%: The pilot maintained a score above 95%, measured using a weighted average of temperature, humidity and CO2 readings across zones.

 

Honeywell Technologies said the Voyager deployment provides a blueprint for extending physical AI capabilities across complex buildings, campuses and industrial operations.

 

Forge Cognition is built on an open, interoperable architecture designed to bring information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments together, allowing AI to operate with a deeper understanding of the systems it monitors.

 

Rather than functioning solely as an analytics tool, the platform is designed to move from interpreting operational data to recommending and coordinating actions, with the level of autonomy determined by customers.

 

Honeywell Technologies said customers can engage with the company now to identify and scope deployments, with the platform’s capabilities expected to expand over time.

 

The launch marks another step in the push to apply AI beyond digital applications and into the physical infrastructure that supports commercial buildings and industrial operations, where equipment reliability, energy consumption and operating efficiency have direct consequences for businesses and occupants.