LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- IoT
Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that
recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the
global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market, today announced that
Johnson Controls, the global leader for smart, healthy and
sustainable buildings, has been selected as the winner of the "IoT
Partner Ecosystem of the Year" award in the 5th annual IoT
Breakthrough Awards program. The company was honored for its
OpenBlue digital platform and extensive work implementing a network
of OpenBlue Innovation Centers around the world. In 2020, Johnson
Controls won the coveted IoT Breakthrough "Overall IoT Company of
the Year" award and in 2019, Johnson Controls won "IoT Innovator of
the Year".
The mission of the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is to
recognize the innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the
globe in a range of IoT categories, including Industrial and
Enterprise IoT, Smart City technology, Connected Home and Home
Automation, Connected Car, and many more. This year's program
attracted more than 3,850 nominations from companies all over the
world.
"A true 'breakthrough' IoT solution requires the work of several
partners, and Johnson Controls continues to partner, co-innovate
and invest with major companies in digital innovation and the
broader industry," said James
Johnson, managing director at IoT Breakthrough. "The
company's commitment to spearhead the creation and adoption of
disruptive solutions for the built environment through its OpenBlue
platform is moving full steam ahead, and we want to congratulate
them again this year on winning an IoT Breakthrough Award."
Johnson Controls OpenBlue Healthy Buildings integrated
technology solutions breaks the traditional conflict of cost versus
sustainability and delivers critical outcomes for healthy, smart
places and experiences. Johnson Controls has developed a network of
OpenBlue global innovation centers designed to accelerate the
reinvention of urban living, with significant investments targeted
at digital innovation. These nine digital innovation centers, based
in Cork (Ireland), Milwaukee, Boca
Raton, Cranston and Birmingham (USA), Wuxi (China), Pune
(India), San José (Costa Rica) and Singapore pioneer, together with major
partners that include the National University
of Singapore and Microsoft, new technologies for safety and
sustainability in connected spaces.
The centers are built on the Company's new suite of connected
solutions, known as OpenBlue, a complete suite of connected
solutions and services that combine Johnson Controls' 135 years of
building expertise with cutting-edge digital technology. When
integrated with Johnson Controls core building systems and enhanced
by ecosystem partners, OpenBlue connects what have traditionally
been separate systems to create new capabilities for safer, more
agile and sustainable space usages.
"Our growing network of OpenBlue digital innovation centers are
all designed to accelerate the reinvention of the building
landscape, unifying all aspects of an intelligent building to
deliver healthy people, healthy places and a healthy planet " said
Mike Ellis, executive vice president
and chief customer & digital officer at Johnson Controls. "We
are confident that our focus of co-innovating cutting-edge digital
and connected technologies through our innovation centers and
OpenBlue will spark 'breakthrough' innovation and true
differentiation for our customers, and we are thrilled to see this
recognition by IoT Breakthrough."
In September of 2020, Johnson Controls opened its latest
OpenBlue innovation center in Singapore, located within the School of Design
and Environment (SDE) at the National
University of Singapore (NUS). The center is a living
laboratory for a new breed of customizable, contact-free
applications built on OpenBlue. OpenBlue Innovation centers are all
designed to accelerate the reinvention of the building landscape,
creating dynamic smart facilities that help businesses meet their
sustainability commitments, while delivering healthy people,
healthy places and a healthy planet.
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About IoT Breakthrough:
Part of the Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and
recognition platform for global technology innovation and
leadership, the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to
honoring excellence in Internet-of-Things technologies, services,
companies and products. The IoT Breakthrough Awards program
provides a forum for public recognition around the achievements of
IoT companies and products in categories including Connected Home
and Home Automation, Connected Car, Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Smart
City, Consumer IoT and more. For more information visit
IoTBreakthrough.com.
About Johnson Controls:
At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people
live, work, learn and play. From optimizing building performance to
improving safety and enhancing comfort, we drive the outcomes that
matter most. We deliver our promise in industries such as
healthcare, education, data centers and manufacturing. With a
global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries and over
130 years of innovation, we are the power behind our customers'
mission. Our leading portfolio of building technology and solutions
includes some of the most trusted names in the industry, such as
Tyco®, YORK®, Metasys®, Ruskin®, Titus®, Frick®, Penn®, Sabroe®,
Simplex®, Ansul® and Grinnell®. For more information, visit
johnsoncontrols.com or follow us @johnsoncontrols on Twitter.
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