Case Study: Johnson Controls achieves smarter air quality management with Microsoft Corporation

Creating smarter heating and cooling systems with cloud-connected IoT solution

Johnson Controls, a long-time building technology leader, wanted to reinvent the thermostat with a smarter, cloud-connected device that could give homeowners and building managers remote access to heating, cooling, and air-quality controls. Using Microsoft Corporation technologies such as Windows 10 IoT Core, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Cortana Intelligence Suite, the company built the GLAS smart thermostat to bring data that was once trapped on-premises into web and mobile apps.

Microsoft Corporation enabled Johnson Controls to launch GLAS with secure cloud connectivity, a streamlined development process, and a consistent experience across devices. The thermostat supports touch and voice control, monitors temperature and air quality, and can alert users when conditions drift outside desired parameters. Johnson Controls also said the platform helped reduce development complexity and let the team focus on product quality, while enabling one device to replace multiple sensors and simplify maintenance.

Johnson Controls

Joseph Ribbich

Program Lead, GLAS and Emerging Technologies