63 less than, the energy produced on-site, and it will be twice as water efficient as comparable buildings. Impressive! Reinvention required Microsoft and JCI make great partners because we are both focused on transformation. In JCI’s case, we’re more than 130 years old but, at the same time, we are also two years old because of the way the business has been reinvented since the launch of our AI platform OpenBlue in 2020. Indeed, JCI’s OpenBlue epitomises the company’s move into becoming the only pure-play smart sustainable buildings enterprise in existence today. Future success for JCI is being built on our rich past and our history gives us an unrivalled depth of knowledge, an installed base of technology, and strong partner relationships. It has also given us a manufacturing capability that is a cornerstone to our technology success. Intelligence in buildings relies on harvested data, and that data comes from end-point systems such as those created by JCI, including HVAC, fire detection, and building automation and control units. When thinking about a computing arc, I consider these end-point systems in detail, asking what level of compute devices require, and how they will connect to each other, the network and the cloud. This is where JCI has an advantage. Today we only think about smart and sustainable buildings, and we’re doing it in a data-driven way. With OpenBlue deployed, JCI thinks compute-first as a primary design principle. The aim is that all deployed devices are efficiently controllable, rooted in trust, and have a level of compute appropriate to their function. The device layer forms an intelligent base linked into OpenBlue’s AI platform which takes the captured data and turns it into actionable insights. These insights appear as real-time information rooted via cloud apps to field teams, providing intelligence such as predictive and remote diagnostics on system performance. And sitting behind all of this is a horde of software developers and data scientists. The device, cloud and service linkage inherent in JCI’s model means we own the technology side of a building’s end-to-end transformation. However, as I said earlier, potential remains potential until it’s fulfilled. My biggest challenge now is helping to ensure computing promise is realised – bringing intelligence and value everywhere it’s useful. Making the building compute complex simple As a career technologist, the idea “ JCI is a disruptor with an ambitious mission to reinvent how buildings work and are controlled”
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