Johnson Controls has unveiled Metasys 15.0, an advanced iteration of its open building automation system, designed for high-demand environments.
This version showcases remarkable scalability, built-in resiliency, and instant energy intelligence, equipping facility managers with essential tools to enhance building performance, uphold compliance, and foster decarbonization efforts.
Noteworthy Features of Metasys 15.0
The newly launched Metasys 15.0 supports up to 1,000 IP devices per server, representing a 60 percent increase compared to most currently available building automation systems.
The newly launched Metasys 15.0 supports up to 1,000 IP devices per server, representing a 60 percent increase
It also introduces multi-server redundancy, which provides simultaneous backup, and features a ready-to-deploy Energy Management suite that delivers real-time insights, facilitating data-driven decisions.
Kaishi Zhang, Vice President of Product Management for Building Automation Systems at Johnson Controls, commented, "Building operators today must navigate a complex landscape of energy goals, operational demands, and evolving workforce needs. The latest release of Metasys delivers a secure, intuitive BMS platform that ensures reliability, simplifies energy oversight, and reduces reliance on specialized labor – essential for deploying across critical applications where performance and uptime matter more than ever before."
Enhanced Scalability and Efficiency
Metasys 15.0 is engineered for easy deployment across various buildings and sites, offering notable advantages to industries with critical operational needs, such as healthcare facilities, data centers, and large educational campuses. The system supports 50,000 objects and 1,000 IP devices per server, facilitating integration across major enterprise sites without significant hardware investments.
This setup allows direct communication between IP devices and servers, effectively lowering infrastructure costs by up to 60% by eliminating intermediary components.
The system also features enhanced data resiliency, with multi-server redundancy ensuring essential alerts, trends, and logs are backed up on dual servers. This redundancy aims to provide uninterrupted operation, data access, and compliance in vital environments like hospitals and data centers.
Energy and System Management
The Energy Management suite in Metasys 15.0 offers ready-to-use applications that simplify data analysis
The Energy Management suite in Metasys 15.0 offers ready-to-use applications that simplify data analysis across energy management, engineering productivity, and cybersecurity to advance operational efficiency.
Additionally, the latest version enables facility managers to configure and manage systems through a web client, significantly cutting down equipment setup time by about 95% compared to older versions and negating the need for server downtimes or external technical support.
Integration and Interoperability
As an open Building Automation System (BAS) solution, Metasys 15.0 is widely recognized for its capability to integrate with a diversity of third-party IT and OT protocols, including BACnet, MSPP, and M-Bus, among others. Its interoperability makes it a versatile choice for field technicians.
Metasys remains a pivotal part of Johnson Controls’ product lineup, enabling cohesive integration across various building technologies to foster energy efficiency, system optimization, and thermal performance.
In conjunction with Johnson Controls’ innovative HVAC, fire, and security technologies, as well as the OpenBlue smart building ecosystem, Metasys helps deliver reduced operational costs and competitive returns on investment.
Johnson Controls, the global pioneer for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, announced the launch of Metasys 15.0, its flagship open building automation system. Engineered to meet the demands of mission-critical environments, Metasys 15.0 delivers unmatched scalability, built-in resiliency and instant energy intelligence giving facility managers the tools to optimize building performance, ensure compliance and accelerate decarbonization.
New features include support for up to 1,000 IP devices per server — 60 percent more than most Building Automation Systems available today, along with multi-server redundancy offering simultaneous backup and a preconfigured ready-to-use Energy Management suite that delivers real-time insights and actionable data.
Latest release of Metasys
“Building operators today must navigate a complex landscape of energy goals, operational demands and evolving workforce needs,” said Kaishi Zhang, Vice President of Product Management for Building Automation Systems at Johnson Controls.
Kaishi Zhang adds, “The latest release of Metasys delivers a secure, intuitive BMS platform that ensures reliability, simplifies energy oversight and reduces reliance on specialized labor – essential for deploying across critical applications where performance and uptime matter more than ever before. We’re thrilled to launch this highly anticipated release, a technology that symbolizes the roots of Johnson Controls and where our experts continue to redefine building automation.”
Key features of Metasys 15.0
Metasys 15.0 simplifies deployment and can be scaled across multiple buildings and sites, bringing competitive advantages to mission-critical industries such as healthcare systems, data centers, and large campuses, while bolstering uptime and efficiency.
Key features include:
- Market-pioneering scalability: With support for 50,000 objects and 1,000 IP devices per server, Metasys 15.0 can be seamlessly deployed across large healthcare campuses, universities, or multi-site enterprises without costly hardware upgrades. By allowing IP devices to communicate directly with the server, organizations can reduce infrastructure costs by up to 60% by eliminating the need for intermediary components.
- 24/7 data resiliency: New multi-server redundancy ensures critical alerts, trends, and audit logs are backed up on two Metasys servers simultaneously, helping to ensure operational continuity, data availability and compliance in mission-critical environments like hospitals and data centers.
- Ready-to-use energy management applications: The Energy Management suite offers ready-to-use applications that allow users to easily access and understand data across energy management, engineering productivity, and cybersecurity to improve operations and planning.
- Fast industry configuration: Facility managers can now more easily configure and manage the system directly using a web client, reducing equipment setup time by nearly 95% compared to previous versions and eliminating the need for server shutdowns or external support.
- Interoperability: as an open BAS solution, Metasys 15, along with previous iterations, is widely recognized by field technicians for its leading ability to support a wide range of third-party IT and OT protocols such as BACnet, MSPP, M-Bus, and more.
OpenBlue smart building ecosystem
Metasys is a cornerstone of Johnson Controls’ product ecosystem, delivering seamless integration across a broad spectrum of building technologies to unlock energy efficiency, system-wide optimization and thermal performance.
The combined impact of Metasys together with Johnson Controls’ advanced HVAC, fire, security technologies as well as the OpenBlue smart building ecosystem and network of more than 40,000 field and service technicians can deliver lower operating costs and a stronger return on investment.
