Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings solutions help building owners comply with new hygiene and social distancing policies and enable business continuity.
Honeywell launched an integrated set of solutions to help building owners improve the health of their building environments, operate more cleanly and safely, comply with social distancing policies, and help reassure occupants that it is safer to return to the workplace. By integrating air quality, safety and security technologies along with advanced analytics, Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings solutions are designed to help building owners minimize potential risks of contamination and create business continuity by monitoring both the building environment and building occupants’ behaviors.
Honeywell’s new solutions provide building owners with more control over critical health, safety and security factors to encourage sustained compliance with changing building standards, safety guidelines, government-issued regulations and a company’s risk management policies. These innovative solutions also provide transparency into a building’s health status to its occupants.
“We’re all facing a new normal – including how buildings are managed. As leader in the digital transformation of IIoT, Honeywell is committed to supporting ASEAN’s development by providing the right solutions to its key challenges, chief among them, working with our customers in the market to support their well-being as building owners, operators, and tenants safely return to work,” said Norm Gilsdorf, Honeywell President, ASEAN.
Sharad Yadav, Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell Building Technologies ASEAN, said, “Honeywell has developed outcome-based solutions that allow building owners to transparently address how they limit the potential for cross-contamination while supporting their business continuity needs in an uncertain environment. We’re giving them the data they need to confidently reassure their employees to accelerate their business operations.”
Sharad added: “Returning to work will not be business as usual. Occupants will want credible information and increased visibility into how building technology is protecting their well-being and what has been done to help make the buildings they enter safer. Healthy buildings go beyond just energy efficiency to improve the well-being, comfort, confidence and productivity of the people who use them.”
Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings solutions are part of a comprehensive effort among Honeywell’s businesses to come together to quickly develop solutions that are helping important sectors of the global economy recover. Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings solutions provide a holistic view of a building’s health based on key factors such as indoor air quality, occupant flow, personal protection equipment (PPE) analytics, thermal screening, social distancing and sanitation efficacy.
Honeywell’s novel #HealthyBuildings Score analytics provide real-time alerts to building owners and operators so they can quickly address non-compliance issues or deal with infection-related incidents. The HealthyBuildings Score comprises key building health metrics that can be provided to occupants in a simplified view on a dashboard. Healthy Buildings outcomes are powered by Honeywell Forge and monitored via the HealthyBuildings score.
Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings solutions features two packages – one focused on indoor air quality and another on safety and security.
The Honeywell Healthy Buildings Air Quality package monitors, manages and controls key parameters to create a healthier built environment while still managing energy efficiency. The Air Quality package can:
- Help building owners implement the latest ASHRAE1 and other local guidelines
- Manage pressurization, ventilation, temperature and humidity
- Gauge environmental and occupancy parameters
- Provide real-time insights on contaminant risk, alerts to change HEPA filters, cleaning and occupant behavior
- Control and optimize UV cleaning, air filtration and air composition.
The Honeywell Healthy Buildings Safety & Security package features hardware and software that can help building owners minimize risk by monitoring, detecting and responding to potential issues using integrated security tools. The Safety & Security package can:
- Manage people flow and reporting, people counting, proactive property protection, thermal temperature screening and PPE mask detection
- Monitor and help sustain compliance with social distancing, space sanitation
- Support contact tracing due to potential virus exposure by leveraging advanced video analytics and incident management workflows
The Honeywell Healthy Buildings solutions work to support the needs of any building and features specific solutions for premium commercial buildings, airports, hospitality, healthcare and education sectors. The fully integrated air quality, health, safety and security controls are backed by expert services and remote monitoring support. Customers can also leverage their existing infrastructure, including third-party solutions, to affordably enhance air quality and security outcomes.
Other businesses within Honeywell are introducing innovative new technologies to provide a healthier environment for customers and end users. For example, Honeywell recently announced its ThermoRebellion temperature monitoring solution, which can be rapidly deployed at the entryway of a factory, airport, distribution center, stadium or other commercial buildings to quickly and efficiently identify whether personnel exhibit an elevated facial temperature.