Honeywell Technologies has introduced Forge Cognition, a self-contained agentic AI and simulation platform for facility operations.
It was developed with technology from NVIDIA and Dell Technologies—across a range of physical environments, such as buildings, campuses and industrial operations.
Facility teams must sift through alarms and equipment data to identify problems, plan maintenance and manage energy use.
Forge Cognition combines real-time digital twins with AI agents to help operators understand facility conditions, simulate operating scenarios and autonomously coordinate actions across supported existing systems, helping improve asset reliability, energy efficiency and operational performance.
Honeywell CTO, Suresh Venkatarayalu, said the physical world demands more than a powerful AI model.
"It requires AI to understand how systems actually operate and interact—that is where the next breakthrough is happening,” he said.
“Forge Cognition combines AI with operational context and engineering expertise, opening a new era of intelligent operations where AI can analyse, recommend and act alongside people.”
Forge Cognition connects to existing customer deployments, adding AI capabilities to Honeywell Technologies’ suite of solutions.
It combines Honeywell Technologies’ decades of domain expertise with assets and systems data in a structured knowledge base, enabling AI agents to discover, contextualise and analyse equipment behaviour, and the relationship between systems.
Agents use that context to interpret operating conditions, identify issues and coordinate responses across connected systems. Applications include:
- Smarter alarm management: AI agents classify and verify building-management alarms to help operators prioritise events that need attention and reduce the number of false positives.
- Predictive asset health: Agents analyse real-time HVAC data to identify emerging equipment issues and guide maintenance, helping operators address problems before they disrupt operations.
- Energy intelligence: Digital twin simulations help operators evaluate operating changes and identify opportunities to reduce energy use while maintaining occupant comfort.
The technology is designed to augment human expertise. Customers can operate Forge Cognition in manual, semi-autonomous or autonomous modes. Operators set the level of oversight and control and can override it at any time.
Forge Cognition’s open, interoperable architecture converges IT and OT environments, helping customers make their infrastructure more intelligent, while tapping into leading AI and computing technologies from NVIDIA and Dell Technologies.
NVIDIA vice president of robotics and edge AI, Deepu Talla, said physical AI is bringing new intelligence to the complex systems that run our buildings and industrial facilities.
“Honeywell Technologies is combining NVIDIA AI and simulation technologies with its deep industrial expertise to help customers anticipate equipment issues, improve reliability and energy efficiency across the infrastructure they already operate," Talla said.
Dell Technologies chief AI officer, John Roese, said the next wave of AI innovation will be driven by intelligent systems that can reason, learn and act in the context of real-world operations.
"The Dell AI Factory provides the infrastructure and services that support Honeywell's vision for intelligent physical operations," he said.
Honeywell Technologies is piloting Forge Cognition at NVIDIA’s Voyager campus, the Fairmont Hotel in Dubai, NEX Mall in Singapore, Vanderbilt University in the US, and at its own campuses in Bangalore and Richardson, Texas, providing early examples of how physical AI can help improve the operations of complex facilities across Honeywell Technologies’ install base of more than 300,000 sites.