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- Smarter Solutions: New AI capabilities offer smarter, more insightful solutions.
- Autonomous Controls: Enhanced autonomous building controls allow customers to run buildings with less manual intervention than ever before.
- Improved User Interface: Updated design and workflows simplify building management.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls, (NYSE:JCI) the global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable building solutions, today announced significantly expanded AI capabilities in its OpenBlue Enterprise Manager suite of digital solutions, part of the OpenBlue digital ecosystem. The updates, available today, include the first customer-facing generative AI applications, more autonomous building controls, and a significantly improved user experience. These updates pave the way for additional AI enhancements in 2025, focused on globally accepted performance standards, optimized equipment performance for cost savings and enhanced regulatory compliance.
The expanded AI features take data insights to the next level and build on the measurable impact customers are already seeing when utilizing OpenBlue. With OpenBlue Enterprise Manager guiding facility improvements, coupled with equipment upgrades and proactive services, customers are benefitting from up to 30% reduction in energy spend, up to 20% reduction in maintenance spend, and 10% more optimized space utilization - a win for the environment and the bottom line.
"The expansion of customer-facing AI features into Johnson Controls OpenBlue marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of building management technology," said Johnson Controls Chief Technology Officer Vijay Sankaran. "These new AI-driven features not only enhance operational efficiency and sustainability, but also empower building owners and operators with unprecedented levels of insight and control. We are committed to pioneering innovations that drive automation and create smarter, more responsive environments for our customers."
A recently commissioned Forrester Consulting study found that 90% of respondents say their building systems are not fully integrated, costing time, people and money. The expanded features in OpenBlue provide clearer insights and better performance, including:
- Integrated generative AI tools that proactively recommend impactful energy savings projects.
- Major upgrades to the user experience with a focus on personalization, improved design, and compliance with a higher level of accessibility standards.
- Expanded data insights that allow users to see details on building visitors throughout the entire portfolio of buildings, improving the understanding and management of occupants.
- Enhanced indoor air quality monitoring and sensor analytics to support smarter and healthier buildings.
- Automatically adjusting setpoints based on fault diagnostics, saving energy, and accelerate capture of potential savings
Turning Insights into Energy Savings using Generative AI
OpenBlue now has integrated generative AI tools that proactively recommend the most impactful energy savings projects, reducing the need to analyze large amounts of building data. The system anticipates needs, like analyzing energy usage based on live weather data, to create actionable insights, helping customers achieve energy savings and reduction in carbon emissions.
"Our customers have consistently told us that one of the challenges with AI is they are unsure of what questions to ask a Generative AI chatbot about their building," said Julius Marchwicki, vice president, digital product management, Johnson Controls. "Our generative AI feature automatically constructs the right prompts that are built from our decades of experience in the commercial buildings space."
The platform also tracks energy conservation projects across over 130 categories, improving data management and managing decarbonization strategies. It supports utility bills management with automatic error correction, reducing billing gaps.
Driving Toward Autonomous Buildings
New features in OpenBlue are driving forward the future of autonomous buildings and allow customers to run their buildings with less manual intervention than ever before. The system can improve productivity through automating processes that traditionally have been manual. It can adjust setpoints based on fault diagnostics, saving energy, carbon, and accelerating potential cost savings. Users can enable autonomous actions or use the system to get advice, while setting their own operational constraints. It also provides detailed information about equipment performance and trends, from a broad view down to individual pieces of equipment. In this release, OpenBlue autonomous control can now be applied to a broader range of central utility plant designs.
OpenBlue now supports digitalization of Standard Operating Procedures, speeding up workflows triggered by various events. New workflows can be quickly published to support security and service needs, supporting both manual and autonomous tasks.
Refreshed User Experience
This release includes major upgrades to the user experience, focused on design, navigation and accessibility. With increased focus on space utilization, the system provides an even clearer picture of how spaces are actually used by building occupants. Detailed visitor analytics are available throughout a portfolio of buildings, improving the understanding of visitor activities, along with intelligent planning when anomalies occur. Operators can schedule services, like cleaning, based on occupancy insights, saving resources and money. Updates also include improved indoor air quality monitoring with a broad ecosystem of sensor partners.
Unlocking Building Performance
OpenBlue Enterprise Manager allows customers to unlock the performance of their building with real-time data visibility. A single pane of glass with advanced analytics, visualization and controls, accelerates operational outcomes, meets certification and regulatory compliance needs while ensuring data security and privacy.
Enhancements to OpenBlue advance the ongoing Johnson Controls transformation as a pure-play provider of comprehensive solutions for commercial buildings. To learn more about how Johnson Controls OpenBlue is transforming buildings from static entities into smart assets visit: https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/openblue
INVESTOR CONTACT: MEDIA CONTACT:
Jim Lucas Danielle Canzanella
Direct: +1 414.340.1752 Direct: +1 203.499.8297
Email: jim.lucas@jci.com Email: media@jci.com
About Johnson Controls:
At Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI), we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.
Building on a proud history of nearly 140 years of innovation, we deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive digital offering.
Today, with a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world`s largest portfolio of building technology and software as well as service solutions from some of the most trusted names in the industry.
Visit www.johnsoncontrols.com for more information and follow @Johnson Controls on social platforms.
- Smarter Solutions: New AI capabilities offer smarter, more insightful solutions.
- Autonomous Controls: Enhanced autonomous building controls allow customers to run buildings with less manual intervention than ever before.
- Improved User Interface: Updated design and workflows simplify building management.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls, (NYSE:JCI) the global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable building solutions, today announced significantly expanded AI capabilities in its OpenBlue Enterprise Manager suite of digital solutions, part of the OpenBlue digital ecosystem. The updates, available today, include the first customer-facing generative AI applications, more autonomous building controls, and a significantly improved user experience. These updates pave the way for additional AI enhancements in 2025, focused on globally accepted performance standards, optimized equipment performance for cost savings and enhanced regulatory compliance.
The expanded AI features take data insights to the next level and build on the measurable impact customers are already seeing when utilizing OpenBlue. With OpenBlue Enterprise Manager guiding facility improvements, coupled with equipment upgrades and proactive services, customers are benefitting from up to 30% reduction in energy spend, up to 20% reduction in maintenance spend, and 10% more optimized space utilization - a win for the environment and the bottom line.
"The expansion of customer-facing AI features into Johnson Controls OpenBlue marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of building management technology," said Johnson Controls Chief Technology Officer Vijay Sankaran. "These new AI-driven features not only enhance operational efficiency and sustainability, but also empower building owners and operators with unprecedented levels of insight and control. We are committed to pioneering innovations that drive automation and create smarter, more responsive environments for our customers."
A recently commissioned Forrester Consulting study found that 90% of respondents say their building systems are not fully integrated, costing time, people and money. The expanded features in OpenBlue provide clearer insights and better performance, including:
- Integrated generative AI tools that proactively recommend impactful energy savings projects.
- Major upgrades to the user experience with a focus on personalization, improved design, and compliance with a higher level of accessibility standards.
- Expanded data insights that allow users to see details on building visitors throughout the entire portfolio of buildings, improving the understanding and management of occupants.
- Enhanced indoor air quality monitoring and sensor analytics to support smarter and healthier buildings.
- Automatically adjusting setpoints based on fault diagnostics, saving energy, and accelerate capture of potential savings
Turning Insights into Energy Savings using Generative AI
OpenBlue now has integrated generative AI tools that proactively recommend the most impactful energy savings projects, reducing the need to analyze large amounts of building data. The system anticipates needs, like analyzing energy usage based on live weather data, to create actionable insights, helping customers achieve energy savings and reduction in carbon emissions.
"Our customers have consistently told us that one of the challenges with AI is they are unsure of what questions to ask a Generative AI chatbot about their building," said Julius Marchwicki, vice president, digital product management, Johnson Controls. "Our generative AI feature automatically constructs the right prompts that are built from our decades of experience in the commercial buildings space."
The platform also tracks energy conservation projects across over 130 categories, improving data management and managing decarbonization strategies. It supports utility bills management with automatic error correction, reducing billing gaps.
Driving Toward Autonomous Buildings
New features in OpenBlue are driving forward the future of autonomous buildings and allow customers to run their buildings with less manual intervention than ever before. The system can improve productivity through automating processes that traditionally have been manual. It can adjust setpoints based on fault diagnostics, saving energy, carbon, and accelerating potential cost savings. Users can enable autonomous actions or use the system to get advice, while setting their own operational constraints. It also provides detailed information about equipment performance and trends, from a broad view down to individual pieces of equipment. In this release, OpenBlue autonomous control can now be applied to a broader range of central utility plant designs.
OpenBlue now supports digitalization of Standard Operating Procedures, speeding up workflows triggered by various events. New workflows can be quickly published to support security and service needs, supporting both manual and autonomous tasks.
Refreshed User Experience
This release includes major upgrades to the user experience, focused on design, navigation and accessibility. With increased focus on space utilization, the system provides an even clearer picture of how spaces are actually used by building occupants. Detailed visitor analytics are available throughout a portfolio of buildings, improving the understanding of visitor activities, along with intelligent planning when anomalies occur. Operators can schedule services, like cleaning, based on occupancy insights, saving resources and money. Updates also include improved indoor air quality monitoring with a broad ecosystem of sensor partners.
Unlocking Building Performance
OpenBlue Enterprise Manager allows customers to unlock the performance of their building with real-time data visibility. A single pane of glass with advanced analytics, visualization and controls, accelerates operational outcomes, meets certification and regulatory compliance needs while ensuring data security and privacy.
Enhancements to OpenBlue advance the ongoing Johnson Controls transformation as a pure-play provider of comprehensive solutions for commercial buildings. To learn more about how Johnson Controls OpenBlue is transforming buildings from static entities into smart assets visit: https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/openblue
INVESTOR CONTACT: MEDIA CONTACT:
Jim Lucas Danielle Canzanella
Direct: +1 414.340.1752 Direct: +1 203.499.8297
Email: jim.lucas@jci.com Email: media@jci.com
About Johnson Controls:
At Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI), we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.
Building on a proud history of nearly 140 years of innovation, we deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive digital offering.
Today, with a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world`s largest portfolio of building technology and software as well as service solutions from some of the most trusted names in the industry.
Visit www.johnsoncontrols.com for more information and follow @Johnson Controls on social platforms.
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JOHNSON CONTROLS EXPANDS AI FEATURES IN OPENBLUE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM
JOHNSON CONTROLS EXPANDS AI FEATURES IN OPENBLUE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM
JOHNSON CONTROLS EXPANDS AI FEATURES IN OPENBLUE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM
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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, April 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- KuCoin, a leading global crypto platform built on trust, today announced the launch of KuCoin PROOF, one of KuCoin's biggest trading competitions to date, built around the core message "Trade. Compete. Prove." At a time when users are placing greater emphasis on fairness in trading activities, KuCoin PROOF is designed to introduce a more structured, verifiable, and accountable competition framework, where participation rules, performance measurement, and reward distribution are clear and consistent. Launching with a reward pool of up to 500K, KuCoin PROOF combines spot and futures competitions, individual and team battle modes, and a more structured campaign framework designed to support broader participation across KuCoin users, crypto traders, communities, and ecosystem participants. Additional campaign phases and themed competitions are expected to roll out in the coming months, further expanding the PROOF experience across formats and audiences.
KuCoin PROOF reflects KuCoin's broader view that trading competitions should evolve beyond reward size and short-term incentives, and instead focus on how competitions are structured, measured, and trusted by users. The initiative is intended to make participation more credible, and engaging over time, while giving users a campaign experience they can better understand and trust. The first phase of PROOF includes spot and futures competitions, as well as individual and team-based participation formats. Over time, the campaign is expected to expand through new themes, additional competitive formats, and future ecosystem collaborations, creating a scalable foundation for longer-term engagement across products, regions, and communities.
At the center of PROOF is the idea of verifiability. KuCoin believes trading competitions should not only be competitive and rewarding, but also clear and accountable. The campaign is therefore structured around visible participation rules, a clear leaderboard methodology, anti-cheat safeguards, reward distribution logic, and an appeal mechanism designed to strengthen fairness throughout the competition lifecycle. In this way, PROOF is designed to support stronger user confidence in how results are measured, how rewards are allocated, and how participation is protected. This approach reflects KuCoin's broader commitment to building a more accountable trading environment, where user participation is not only incentivized, but also verifiable and protected.
Visit the KuCoin PROOF landing page to explore the campaign, view participation details, and join the competition.
About KuCoin
Founded in 2017, KuCoin is a leading global crypto platform built on trust and security, serving over 40 million users across 200+ countries and regions. Known for its reliability and user-first approach, the platform combines advanced technology, deep liquidity, and strong security safeguards to deliver a seamless trading experience. KuCoin provides access to 1,500+ digital assets through a broad product suite and remains committed to building transparent, compliant, and user-centric digital asset infrastructure for the future of finance, backed by SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 Certifications. In recent years, we have built a strong global compliance foundation, marked by key milestones including AUSTRAC registration in Australia, a MiCA license in Europe, and regulatory progress in other markets.
Learn more at www.kucoin.com.
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, April 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- KuCoin, a leading global crypto platform built on trust, today announced the launch of KuCoin PROOF, one of KuCoin's biggest trading competitions to date, built around the core message "Trade. Compete. Prove." At a time when users are placing greater emphasis on fairness in trading activities, KuCoin PROOF is designed to introduce a more structured, verifiable, and accountable competition framework, where participation rules, performance measurement, and reward distribution are clear and consistent. Launching with a reward pool of up to 500K, KuCoin PROOF combines spot and futures competitions, individual and team battle modes, and a more structured campaign framework designed to support broader participation across KuCoin users, crypto traders, communities, and ecosystem participants. Additional campaign phases and themed competitions are expected to roll out in the coming months, further expanding the PROOF experience across formats and audiences.
KuCoin PROOF reflects KuCoin's broader view that trading competitions should evolve beyond reward size and short-term incentives, and instead focus on how competitions are structured, measured, and trusted by users. The initiative is intended to make participation more credible, and engaging over time, while giving users a campaign experience they can better understand and trust. The first phase of PROOF includes spot and futures competitions, as well as individual and team-based participation formats. Over time, the campaign is expected to expand through new themes, additional competitive formats, and future ecosystem collaborations, creating a scalable foundation for longer-term engagement across products, regions, and communities.
At the center of PROOF is the idea of verifiability. KuCoin believes trading competitions should not only be competitive and rewarding, but also clear and accountable. The campaign is therefore structured around visible participation rules, a clear leaderboard methodology, anti-cheat safeguards, reward distribution logic, and an appeal mechanism designed to strengthen fairness throughout the competition lifecycle. In this way, PROOF is designed to support stronger user confidence in how results are measured, how rewards are allocated, and how participation is protected. This approach reflects KuCoin's broader commitment to building a more accountable trading environment, where user participation is not only incentivized, but also verifiable and protected.
Visit the KuCoin PROOF landing page to explore the campaign, view participation details, and join the competition.
About KuCoin
Founded in 2017, KuCoin is a leading global crypto platform built on trust and security, serving over 40 million users across 200+ countries and regions. Known for its reliability and user-first approach, the platform combines advanced technology, deep liquidity, and strong security safeguards to deliver a seamless trading experience. KuCoin provides access to 1,500+ digital assets through a broad product suite and remains committed to building transparent, compliant, and user-centric digital asset infrastructure for the future of finance, backed by SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 Certifications. In recent years, we have built a strong global compliance foundation, marked by key milestones including AUSTRAC registration in Australia, a MiCA license in Europe, and regulatory progress in other markets.
Learn more at www.kucoin.com.
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KuCoin Introduces PROOF, a Trading Competition Focused on Verifiability and Fair Play
