Technology Leadership Award Presented to Honeywell
"Integration is a wonderful concept, but it's hard to deploy in a way that customers see the value of it instead of as an added expense," declared Greg Turner, director of global offer management, Honeywell Building Solutions, Minneapolis. "We've been doing this since the 1970s and have gone through a couple of generations and iterations, and we provide it to simplify rather than complicate.
"It obviously helps that we are a manufacturer that has major products all over the HVAC, fire, video, intrusion and access arenas," he pointed out. "The fact that we have specialization in each of those areas gives us a good knowledge base to put the best of all those things together without overly complicating it for the customer with subsystem vendors."