Honeywell and Google Cloud are partnering to develop AI agents for industrial processes and to increase safety. The partnership will bring together Cloud AI platform with Honeywell’s Industrial IoT platform Forge. Google’s Cloud AI platform Gemini, with its multimodality and natural language capabilities, will be combined with Google’s Vertex AI agent builder and Honeywell Forge’s large industrial dataset.

The first solutions built with Google Cloud AI will be available to Honeywell customers in 2025.

Honeywell and Google Cloud will co-innovate solutions around purpose-built, industrial ai agents built on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Search. These will be tailored to engineers’ specific needs, providing a new AI-powered agent to help automate tasks and reduce project design cycles.

Additional agents will use Google’s large language models (LLMs) to help technicians to more quickly resolve maintenance issues (e.g., “How did a unit perform last night?” “How do I replace the input/output module?” or “Why is my system making this sound?”). By employing Gemini’s multimodality capabilities, users will be able to process various data types such as images, videos, text and sensor readings, which will help its engineers get the answers they need quickly – going beyond simple chat and predictions.

Google Threat Intelligence, featuring input from Mandiant, will be integrated into current Honeywell cybersecurity products, including Global Analysis, Research and Defence (GARD) Threat Intelligence and Secure Media Exchange (SMX), to help enhance threat detection and protect industrial infrastructure on a global scale.

Honeywell will explore using Google’s Gemini Nano model to enhance Honeywell edge AI devices’ intelligence multiple use cases across verticals, ranging from scanning performance to voice-based guided workflow, maintenance, operational and alarm assist without the need to connect to the internet and cloud.

“The path to autonomy requires assets working harder, people working smarter and processes working more efficiently,” said Vimal Kapur, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell. “By combining Google Cloud’s AI technology with our deep domain expertise–including valuable data on our Honeywell Forge platform–customers will receive unparalleled, actionable insights bridging the physical and digital worlds to accelerate autonomous operations, a key driver of 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’re creating new opportunities to optimise processes, empower workforces and drive meaningful business outcomes for industrial organisations worldwide.”