Honeywell launches Forge Cognition with NVIDIA, Dell

Forge Cognition sits on top of Honeywell's existing customer deployments rather than replacing them, which is notable because the company says it can add AI capabilities across an install base of more than 300,000 sites. That framing suggests the product is aimed at retrofitting intelligence into buildings already running Honeywell systems, not just new construction.

The technology stack leans on NVIDIA for the AI models and simulation: Nemotron open models power agents including a True Alarm agent that improves through operator feedback, Omniverse libraries enable physically accurate building simulations, and Cosmos open models with the Metropolis VSS Blueprint let vision agents understand live or recorded sensor data. Dell Technologies supplies the infrastructure through the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, including PowerEdge XE servers and the Dell AI Data Platform.

The Voyager pilot numbers give a sense of the pitch: up to 90% reduction in unnecessary alerts, up to 10% potential reduction in energy and utility consumption, and a comfort score maintained above 95%. Honeywell describes Voyager as a blueprint for extending these capabilities across buildings, campuses and industrial operations, and customers can engage Honeywell to scope deployments, with capabilities expanding over time.