Frost & Sullivan has selected US-based manufacturer Honeywell as the recipient of the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Technology Leadership Award.
The award follows a recent Frost & Sullivan study, Strategic Analysis: Integration of Building Technologies with BAS, which, it is claimed, recognises Honeywell for leading the integration of building automation systems (BAS), security systems, and fire and life safety systems, along with other shared services.
Frost & Sullivan presents this award annually to the company that has demonstrated technology leadership by excelling in all stages of the technology life cycle — incubation, adaptation, take-up, and maturity — to ensure a continuous flow of improvements. The award recognises the innovation of leading-edge concepts, which help pioneer client applications, the company says.
What they say
"While lack of expertise in all domains and the shortage of a skilled force restrained other companies, Honeywell realised the inevitability of integration and was the first to group different building management systems on to a single platform in the 1970s," says Frost & Sullivan research analyst Sapan Agarwal.
In 2002, Honeywell Building Solutions integrated digital video as a component of EBI with the Honeywell Digital Video Manager (DVM). This application was created to address the customers’ potential need to tie security technology like closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems into other core building functions.