Honeywell unveils EBI One AI platform built on 30,000+ buildings

Honeywell Technologies used its Accelerate 2026 event, which drew more than 2,000 customers and partners, to position its building portfolio around a shift from traditional automation toward what it calls increasingly autonomous operations. The company frames the need in staffing terms: Juan Picon, president and CEO of Honeywell Technologies Building Automation, said owners and operators are being asked to manage increasingly complex environments with fewer skilled resources.

The new offerings build on the company's existing installed base. EBI One draws on the Enterprise Buildings Integrator experience across more than 30,000 buildings, while the fire and life safety additions target earlier detection and fewer nuisance alarms through low-level carbon monoxide monitoring and System Sensor Distinguish detector technology. In security, the planned LenelS2 Adaptive Intelligence Suite is designed to add AI capabilities to existing platforms while preserving current technology investments, starting with LenelS2 OnGuard.

The announcements also lean on Forge Cognition, an agentic AI and simulation platform developed with NVIDIA and Dell Technologies. In a co-creation deployment at NVIDIA's headquarters in Santa Clara, Forge Cognition demonstrated an average 90% reduction in unnecessary alerts, and the collaboration identified the potential to reduce energy and utility consumption by up to 10%. Honeywell also previewed Niagara 5, the next generation of its Niagara framework for connecting building systems across vendors, with both Niagara 5 and the security suite slated for unveiling in early 2027.