International. Honeywell announced the launch of Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization, a cloud-based closed-loop machine learning solution that continuously studies a building's energy consumption patterns and automatically adjusts to the optimal energy-saving configuration without compromising occupant comfort levels.
Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization, the first autonomous construction solution focused on decreasing energy consumption, can generate double-digit energy savings, decrease a building's carbon footprint, and can be implemented without significant upfront capital expenditures or changes to a building's current operational processes.
System of agnostic optimization and advancement of the latest IoT construction technologies
During a pilot test at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization demonstrated an initial energy saving of 10%. HBMSU is the first accredited smart university in the UAE and is known for its technology and innovation programs.
Energy savings
Energy consumption in commercial buildings is a major problem because these buildings account for more than 36% of global final energy consumption and almost 40% of total direct and indirect CO2 emissions.
Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization autonomously and continuously optimizes a building's internal set points across hundreds of assets every 15 minutes to assess whether a building's HVAC system is operating at maximum efficiency. When Honeywell's solution finds the need to make an adjustment, it analyzes factors such as time of day, weather, occupancy levels, and dozens of other data points to determine the optimal configuration per building and makes calculated decisions 96 times per 24-hour period for each building in a portfolio. 365 days a year across the asset system. Repeated results have shown double-digit reductions in HVAC-related consumption without affecting customer comfort.
Traditional HVAC control solutions incorporate different levels of sophistication. The most basic include static set points that do not take into account variable factors such as occupancy or weather. The second, and most common, is based on programmed set-point adjustments using estimated occupancy and weather conditions. Finally, set points can be managed by a certified power manager; however, most facilities have not found this solution to produce a viable return on investment due to the large volume of variables involved and the difficulty of producing accurate calculations in a scalable manner.
Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization is easy to implement for building portfolio owners with plug-and-play capabilities. No changes in commercial mechanics are needed and no need to extract and replace systems to add energy optimization to a building.
