HVAC and building automation firm Carrier has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. Carrier is moving up to 70 per cent of its 4000 servers and 996 applications away from legacy servers and databases to AWS.
 
It hopes this will reduce IT infrastructure costs while positioning the company to innovate and deliver more products and services to its customers around the world. In addition, Carrier will use AWS data warehouse, analytics and machine learning (ML) services to identify efficiencies in its manufacturing processes and supply chains, and AWS IoT services to underpin a line of intelligent, networked products and services for the home, workplace and refrigerated logistics chain.
 
Carrier, part of United Technologies, expects to become a standalone public company in the first half of 2020 and plans to leverage AWS to drive its digital transformation and lead the next era of growth and expansion in the industry.
 
Carrier plans to build its data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use AWS ML services to query and gain insights from real-time and historical data recorded across its manufacturing and supply chain lines. The gains in forecasting and efficiency derived from those insights should help Carrier develop offerings and bring innovations to its customers.
 
In addition, Carrier will use AWS’s IoT services, such as AWS IoT Core, IoT Analytics and IoT Events, to connect its products into intelligent systems, and AWS’s ML and artificial intelligence services to allow those systems to learn from users’ habits and adjust automatically to improve efficiency without sacrificing performance.
 
For instance, a smart climate control system that processes data from linked sensors throughout an office tower could be used to identify occupancy patterns over different times and days of the week and then modulate temperature, humidity and ventilation to provide a comfortable environment more aligned with demand. Moving forward, Carrier will build on AWS to deliver software that gives users the ability to monitor, optimise, report on and forecast the performance and use of their IoT devices.
 
“At Carrier, we are pushing to drive more innovation and connectivity to make buildings more sustainable, efficient and comfortable,” said Bobby George, chief digital officer at Carrier. “Carrier’s work with AWS is an integral part of our digital transformation, and AWS is the hyperscale platform on which we expect to turn connected product and ecosystem data into opportunities for segment growth, new market channels and improved customer experiences.”
 
Carrier is a provider of HVAC, refrigeration, fire, security and building automation technologies through its brands such as Carrier, Kidde, Edwards, LenelS2 and Automated Logic.
 
“For more than a century, Carrier products and services have shaped the indoor environments in which people around the world live and work,” said Mike Clayville, vice president at AWS. “With AWS’s unmatched set of cloud services, Carrier is positioned to leap ahead in its vision of transforming itself for the digital age, putting data to work to provide better customer experiences, and delivering agility that will enable it to remain a global leader in building technologies.”