Johnson Controls has launched Metasys 16.0, the newest iteration of its building automation system, aimed at reducing downtime risks, enhancing cybersecurity, and achieving faster integration across complex environments. As building performance becomes increasingly crucial to business success, the system includes advancements to maintain consistent operations and adapt to evolving customer needs.
“The environments our customers operate in are more complex than ever, and expectations for performance continue to rise,” stated M. Faisal Pandit, president of Building Management Systems, Johnson Controls. “Even brief disruptions can impact operations, productivity, and outcomes. Customers need a building automation system that is secure, resilient, and simple to deploy and scale. With Metasys 16.0, Johnson Controls brings this together in a single platform, helping customers maintain continuous operations, reduce risk and adapt as their needs evolve.”
Reliable Operating Environments
Recent advances in sectors such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology emphasize the need for reliable, high-performing building environments. In these industries, seamless operations and thermal management have become integral to performance and scalability. Metasys 16.0 caters to these demands with features enabling faster deployment, enhanced interconnectivity, and robust resilience.
Among the new features, Metasys 16.0 enhances cybersecurity with protections following IEC 62443-4-2 Security Level 2 standards. This reduces cybersecurity risks and adapts to evolving regulatory requirements. The system introduces “Fast Track” upgrades that abbreviate upgrade processes by up to 40%, facilitating swift adoption of new improvements.
Integration and Efficiency Improvements
Metasys 16.0 caters to these demands with features enabling faster deployment
The platform promotes expedited system integration, utilizing open, connected methods and visual integration tools such as Node-RED. This approach allows real-time data sharing and accelerates implementation, achieving integration up to 80% faster and reducing associated costs significantly. Additionally, the system supports built-in resilience by maintaining uptime even if a server fails, eliminating the need for auxiliary hardware.
Metasys 16.0 provides comprehensive visibility into energy consumption, indoor air quality, emissions, and system performance through integrated analytics, streamlining configuration processes. The system supports scalability from single-building setups to extensive campuses, managing up to 1,300 IP devices, which is 30% more than before, without major system overhauls.
Advanced Performance Optimization
The system enhances efficiency with optimized air and water sequences following ASHRAE Guideline 36, ensuring consistent performance with up to 30% energy savings. It also offers regulatory readiness support, helping users comply with emerging global standards and directives on energy performance, backed by validated data and insightful dashboards.
Enabled by Johnson Controls’ innovation, manufacturing prowess, and a global workforce of 50,000, Metasys 16.0 empowers users to achieve precise, enduring environments, fostering operational efficiency, reduced risks, and long-term consistent performance.
Johnson Controls, a global pioneer in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency and decarbonization, introduces Metasys 16.0, the latest version of its flagship building automation system with new capabilities designed to help customers reduce downtime risk, strengthen cybersecurity and bring systems online faster across complex environments at a time when building performance is becoming essential to business outcomes.
“The environments our customers operate in are more complex than ever, and expectations for performance continue to rise,” said M. Faisal Pandit, president, Building Management Systems, Johnson Controls. “Even brief disruptions can impact operations, productivity and outcomes. Customers need a building automation system that is secure, resilient, and simple to deploy and scale. With Metasys 16.0, Johnson Controls brings this together in a single platform, helping customers maintain continuous operations, reduce risk and adapt as their needs evolve.”
Reliable operating environments
A wave of scientific advances—from artificial intelligence to biotechnology to advanced manufacturing—is now moving rapidly into large-scale deployment. These industries require precise, reliable operating environments, elevating building performance from a supporting role to essential for business success. Thermal management is now central to how systems perform and scale, and digitally enabled life cycle services are critical to maintaining uptime, protecting high-value assets and delivering consistent outcomes.
Metasys 16.0 responds to the performance needs of these high-growth industries, enabling faster deployment, more autonomous operations, and connected, resilient platforms built for environments where performance cannot fail.
Peak load analytics
New features include:
- Stronger cybersecurity: Safeguards operations with protections aligned with IEC 62443-4-2 Security Level 2, reducing risk and supporting evolving requirements. “Fast Track” upgrades cut upgrade time by up to 40% through pre-emptive system checks and accelerate adoption of the latest cybersecurity and operational enhancements.
- Faster integration and deployment: Connects systems more quickly across environments using an open, connected approach. Visual integration tools, including Node-RED, enable real-time data sharing and help deploy integrations up to 80% faster, reducing costs by 60% to 70% and bringing new capabilities online in days instead of months.
- Built-in resilience for continuous uptime: Protects uptime with built-in resilience across multiple servers so operations continue seamlessly if one server goes offline, without the need for specialized hardware or third-party software.
- Accelerated engineering and upgrades: Accelerates deployment and reduces disruption through standardized workflows that cut engineering and deployment time by up to 30%.
- Integrated energy and performance visibility: Provides real-time visibility into peak load analytics, energy use, indoor air quality, emissions and system performance in a single system, reducing configuration time and limiting the need for third-party tools.
- Scalability for growing environments: Scales from single buildings to campuses and portfolios, supporting up to 1,300 IP devices, 30% more than previous versions, without requiring system changes.
- Optimized performance and efficiency: Improves efficiency with air and water sequences aligned to ASHRAE Guideline 36, delivering more consistent performance and up to 30% energy savings.
- Regulatory readiness: Helps customers stay ahead of evolving requirements, including dashboards ready for Energy Performance of Buildings Directive dashboards and other emerging global standard reporting requirements with validated data and clear insights to support compliance and occupant well-being.
Enabled by Johnson Controls innovation, manufacturing scale and a global 50,000-person field workforce, Metasys 16.0 helps customers create and sustain precise, resilient environments, facilitating more efficient operations, lower risk and consistent performance over time.
