Honeywell has announced a global collaboration with LS Electric to jointly develop and market hardware and software solutions to power management and distribution for data centres and other building operators.
The partnership is aimed at integrating critical power distribution with broader building management functions, such as ensuring load is aligned to capacity to improve resiliency.
The two companies will initially sell joint products, offering data centre operators integrated switchgear and power management to control and distribute power.
Eventually, they aim to jointly develop new electrical power monitoring systems based on Honeywell Forge, a platform with AI functions, and LS Electric’s software.
The resulting systems will offer smart regulation of energy distribution and consumption while also leveraging AI-driven predictive maintenance.
The companies will also collaborate on a new grid and building-aware battery energy storage system (BESS) for commercial and industrial buildings.
The solution will create microgrids in critical buildings and industrial facilities, offering a practical alternative to help improve resiliency and manage demand.
This new modular BESS solution plans to integrate LD Electric’s energy storage capabilities with Honeywell’s energy control software to help forecast the best source and cost based on utility data, weather and other risks.
Data centres currently consume 1-2 per cent of global electricity production. With this partnership, Honeywell says its building automation controls allow data centres to be more efficient with energy use and storage.
“As the global demand for data and energy accelerates, this partnership with LS Electric combines our complementary strengths to distribute intelligent infrastructure that’s not only resilient and efficient but also future-ready. Together, we’re unlocking possibilities that will help our customers stay ahead in a landscape being rapidly reshaped by AI,” Honeywell Building Automation president and CEO Billal Hammoud says.
Earlier this year, Honeywell expanded its smart energy portfolio with a tuck-in acquisition of three utility platforms from grid management solution provider SparkMeter for an undisclosed sum. The three platforms include Praxis, GridScan and GridFin. The acquisition incorporated intellectual property as well as certain related assets from SparkMeter.
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