Monash Honeywell Collaboration
Monash Honeywell Collaboration
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The research partnership between Honeywell Building Solutions and Monash University aims to deliver one of the world’s first "Cognitive Office" buildings.
A "cognitive" building has the ability to learn and self-optimise for energy efficiency, deriving insights through data.
Latest News: This project is a finalist in the Green Gown Awards, Australasia. Winners announced 1st November 2018.

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 software-industrial company that delivers industry-specific solutions that include aerospace and automotive products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes, and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help everything from aircraft, cars, homes and buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable.

The team
This is a unique partnership in which Monash University researchers and students worked alongside a global organisation, bringing together technology and investment to enable a smarter future.

The Partnership
The research partnership will see both organisations build technology to transform building management. An initial pilot demonstrated HVAC energy reduced by up to 27%. This has formed the basis for further research using machine learning and data visualisation techniques.

Monash uses big data to create buildings of the future
May 2018
Monash will use big data to enable their buildings to intelligently and automatically alter the internal environment, transforming the way staff and students live, work and learn at the University.
Monash University and Honeywell Building Solutions have signed a collaboration agreement today to deliver one of the world's first 'cognitive office buildings' bringing together next-generation technology and research to significantly change the way buildings are managed.
Using the convenience of today's smartphones, Honeywell will deploy its Honeywell Vector Occupant App across the Clayton Campus to collect data on how staff and students rate spaces, how they navigate buildings; report faults, and how often and when buildings are accessed.
The data will feed into Honeywell's Command and Control Suite based in the Future Control Room at Monash to connect key personnel with data visualisations. It will provide simple, intuitive displays to building operations teams and allow them to enhance facilities and security management, and to create comfortable spaces for students and staff while reducing energy consumption.
The research outcomes will contribute to the broader Monash University Net Zero initiative, in which Monash aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030, the most ambitious project of its kind undertaken by an Australian university.
Monash Faculty of IT Dean, Professor Jon Whittle said the size of the Clayton Campus and its energy requirements are similar to a small city making it the perfect place to establish a 'cognitive building' environment.
"As Australia's largest university, with more than 78,000 students, 16,000 staff and over 150 buildings spread across four domestic campuses, we're a significant consumer of energy," he said.
"The team at Monash, working together with Honeywell, are changing the way building performance data can be used to help mitigate risk, enhance business continuity and reduce operational costs," the Dean said.
Karl Mahoney, Vice President of Honeywell Building Solutions Asia Pacific, says that the data gathered from their buildings will allow Monash to achieve unprecedented levels of optimisation.
"Using Monash University buildings, we want to bring a new level of intelligence – a brain if you will – allowing them to service their occupants in ways we might never have thought possible. This first research project is a great vehicle for Honeywell working alongside Monash IT experts and students to solve real challenges for the University," Karl said.
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