Honeywell and Google Cloud announced a unique collaboration connecting artificial intelligence (AI) agents with assets, people and processes to accelerate safer, autonomous operations for the industrial sector.

This partnership will bring together Gemini’s multimodal and natural language capabilities on Vertex AI (Google Cloud’s AI platform) and massive data set on Honeywell Forge, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for industrial. This will enable easy-to-understand, enterprise-wide insights across a multitude of use cases. Honeywell’s industrial customers will benefit from opportunities to reduce maintenance costs, increase operational productivity and upskill employees. The first solutions built with Google Cloud AI will be available to Honeywell customers in 2025.

“The path to self-sufficiency requires assets to work harder, people to work smarter, and processes to operate more efficiently,” said Vimal Kapur, Honeywell chairman and CEO. “By combining Google Cloud AI technology with our deep domain expertise, including valuable data on our Honeywell Forge platform, customers will receive unprecedented actionable insights bridging the physical and digital worlds to accelerate autonomous operations, a driver key to Honeywell’s growth.

“Our partnership with Honeywell represents a significant step forward in bringing the transformative power of AI to industrial operations,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. “With Gemini on Vertex AI, combined with Honeywell’s industrial data and expertise, we are creating new opportunities to optimize processes, empower the workforce and drive meaningful business outcomes for industrial organizations around the world.

With the mass retirement of baby boomers, the industrial sector is facing labor and skills shortages, and AI can be part of the solution, as a generator income and not as a job eliminator. More than two-thirds (82%) of industrial AI leaders believe their companies are early adopters of AI, but only 17% have fully launched their initial AI plans, according to the 2024 Industrial report Honeywell AI Insights. This partnership will provide AI agents that augment existing operations and workforces to help drive AI adoption and enable companies in the industry to benefit from increasing automation.

Honeywell and Google Cloud will co-innovate solutions around:

Purpose-built industrial AI agents

Built on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Search and tailored to the specific needs of engineers, a new AI-powered agent will help automate tasks and reduce project design cycles, allowing users to focus on innovation and delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Additional agents will use Google’s Large Language Models (LLM) to help technicians resolve maintenance issues more quickly (for example, “How did a unit perform last night?” “How do I replace the module?” ‘input/output’ or ‘Why is my system making this noise?’ By leveraging Gemini’s multimodal capabilities, users will be able to process various types of data such as images, videos, text and sensor readings, helping its engineers quickly get the answers they need, going to the beyond simple chat and predictions.

Improved Cybersecurity

Google Threat Intelligence, powered by Mandiant’s frontline intelligence, will be integrated with Honeywell’s current cybersecurity products, including Global Analysis, Research, and Defense (GARD) Threat Intelligence and Secure Media Exchange (SMX), to help improve detection threats and protect global infrastructure for industrial customers.

Advances in state-of-the-art devices

In the future, Honeywell will explore using Google’s Gemini Nano model to enhance the intelligence of Honeywell Edge AI devices across multiple use cases across verticals, ranging from scanning performance to data-driven workflow. voice, maintenance, operation and alarm assistance without the need to connect to the Internet and the cloud. This is the start of a new wave of smarter devices and solutions, which will be the subject of future announcements from Honeywell.

Leveraging AI to drive growth and productivity, the integration of Google Cloud technology also supports Honeywell’s alignment of its portfolio with three compelling megatrends, including automation.