Honeywell Technologies has introduced a portfolio of AI-powered building automation, fire and life safety and security technologies aimed at helping building owners and operators improve safety, efficiency and operational decision-making.

The announcements were made at Accelerate 2026, the company's largest-ever industry event, which brought together more than 2,000 customers and partners. The new offerings are intended to help organizations modernize building infrastructure and accelerate the transition from traditional automation to increasingly autonomous operations.

"Buildings are at an inflection point with owners and operators being asked to manage increasingly complex environments, often with fewer skilled resources," said Juan Picon, president and CEO of Honeywell Technologies Building Automation. "Customers today need more than connected systems and volumes of data. Instead, they need technologies that turn information into actionable intelligence, simplify operations and enable better decisions."

Picon said the company is combining its building automation experience with AI and other advanced technologies to help customers address operational challenges and move toward autonomous building operations.

Among the new offerings is EBI One, an AI-powered command and control platform that uses intelligence from Honeywell Technologies Forge Cognition to continuously assess outcomes and inform operator actions. Built on the company's Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) experience across more than 30,000 buildings, the platform includes conversational AI operations, intelligent alarm assistance and open integration capabilities intended to simplify building management while improving safety and efficiency.

Honeywell Technologies is also expanding its fire and life safety portfolio with technologies focused on earlier detection and improved incident response. New capabilities include low-level carbon monoxide (CO) monitoring, which provides immediate concentration visibility and trend analysis, and System Sensor Distinguish detector technology, which differentiates fire signatures from conditions such as steam, dust and mist to help reduce unwanted nuisance alarms.

The company is additionally introducing Incident Command, a software application that consolidates incident information, unit accountability, operational procedures and live data about evolving conditions within a connected building into a single operational view. The capabilities are intended to provide earlier insight into potential risks, reduce nuisance alarms and improve responses for building occupants and emergency responders.

In security, Honeywell Technologies plans to introduce the LenelS2 Adaptive Intelligence Suite, which will add AI-powered capabilities to existing security platforms. Features include AI-weighted alarm management, alarm contextualization, natural-language reporting, unified dashboards, anomaly detection and guided workflows.

The suite is intended to help security teams prioritize alarms, reduce alarm fatigue and improve situational awareness. It will initially support LenelS2 OnGuard, allowing customers to add contextual AI capabilities while maintaining existing technology investments. Honeywell Technologies expects to unveil the suite at ISC West in early 2027.

The company also previewed Niagara 5, the next generation of its Niagara framework. The platform provides a foundation for connecting building systems across HVAC, fire, security, access control, lighting and energy, including systems from different vendors.

Combined with Forge Cognition intelligence, Niagara 5 is intended to provide a contextualized view of building system assets while reducing engineering and commissioning efforts. Honeywell Technologies said the framework will help building owners, system integrators and operators move toward increasingly autonomous building operations. The company expects to unveil Niagara 5 at AHR in early 2027.

The announcements build on Honeywell Technologies' Forge Cognition platform, an agentic AI and simulation platform developed in collaboration with NVIDIA and Dell Technologies. The platform combines real-time digital twins with AI capabilities to help operators understand facility conditions, anticipate issues and coordinate actions across connected systems.

In a co-creation deployment at NVIDIA's headquarters in Santa Clara, Forge Cognition demonstrated an average 90% reduction in unnecessary alerts, allowing operations teams to focus on higher-priority issues. The collaboration also identified the potential to reduce energy and utility consumption by up to 10%.

Accelerate 2026 featured executive keynotes, customer-led discussions, hands-on demonstrations and an Innovation Hub showcasing building applications across hospitality, data centers, semiconductors, energy and utilities, commercial buildings, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, government and education.

The portfolio reflects Honeywell Technologies' broader effort to combine AI-powered decision support, advanced detection, connected infrastructure and building management platforms to move facilities beyond traditional automation toward autonomous operations.