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News for Johnson Controls International plc (JCI) centers on its role in building technology, smart buildings and retail-focused solutions. The company regularly issues updates describing itself as the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, and highlights how its technologies transform environments where people live, work, learn and play. Many announcements focus on innovations delivered through its OpenBlue digital offering and its presence in industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums and manufacturing.
A significant portion of Johnson Controls news involves Sensormatic Solutions, its global retail solutions portfolio. Sensormatic announcements cover new capabilities in loss prevention, inventory intelligence and traffic insight solutions. Recent items include the expansion of the Shrink Analyzer application with machine learning features, the introduction of Category-Level Shrink Insights using acousto-magnetic EAS technology, and the launch of the FLEX platform that combines storefront merchandising, retail media and loss prevention technologies.
Other news highlights TrueVUE Cloud inventory intelligence, including a platform-as-a-service option for retailers and collaborations with partners such as Keonn Technologies to support hands-free cycle counting and real-time merchandise location. Johnson Controls also features updates on AI-enabled sensors and video analytics, such as Orbit AI and Store Guest Behaviors, which provide shopper journey and traffic insights.
In addition, investors will find corporate and financial communications such as earnings conference call webcasts, strategic investments in areas like liquid cooling for AI and high-performance computing data centers, and disclosures related to portfolio changes. This news page brings together these varied updates so readers can follow how Johnson Controls and its Sensormatic Solutions portfolio evolve across building technology, retail operations and data center applications.
Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) launched a Reference Design Guide Series for 1 Gigawatt AI data centers on Feb 2, 2026. The series maps full thermal chains for water-cooled, air-cooled and absorption chiller architectures and begins with a water-cooled chiller plant blueprint.
The guides provide sizing for 220MW compute quadrants, TCS loop conditions, integration with CRAHs, CDUs and YORK centrifugal chillers, and promote options for zero water consumption, high-temperature TCS readiness, NVIDIA DSX alignment and improved PUE/WUE across diverse climates and elevations.
Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) previewed the YORK YK-HT two-stage economized centrifugal chiller at AHR Expo 2026, a compact, high‑lift unit designed for data centers and large campuses. It operates with condenser leaving fluid temperatures up to 165°F and up to 110°F lift, enabling dry‑cooler, water‑free heat rejection.
The YK‑HT can offset more than 35 MMBtu/hour, eliminate typical cooling‑tower water use (≈8–9 million gallons/year for a 2,000‑ton unit), reduce dry coolers by up to 60%, cut noise by up to 20 dBA, and offers a ~30% smaller footprint.
Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) was named to Fortune's 2026 World's Most Admired Companies list on January 30, 2026. The recognition highlights the company’s focus on smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, operational discipline, and solutions for decarbonization, resilience and efficiency across mission-critical industries.
Fortune's list is compiled with Korn Ferry and evaluates companies across nine reputation criteria including innovation, management quality, social responsibility and talent attraction.
Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) appointed Susan Hughes as vice president and president, Asia Pacific, effective with the announcement on Jan. 26, 2026. Hughes will report to CEO Joakim Weidemanis and join the company executive committee. She succeeds Anu Rathninde, who will depart at the end of February. Hughes has 20 years of experience at Emerson, most recently as President of Asia Pacific for Emerson Automation Solutions, and brings operating experience across sales, marketing, service, engineering and manufacturing. She holds an MBA from Washington University's Olin School of Business and dual bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Mandarin Chinese and is conversant in English and Mandarin.
Sensormatic Solutions (NYSE: JCI) announced a technology collaboration with Keonn to integrate the AdvanTrack-600 real-time location system with Sensormatic TrueVUE Cloud to automate store-wide cycle counts and improve inventory visibility. The solution pairs AdvanTrack-600 overhead RFID sensing (location accuracy 1–2 meters, coverage up to 60m2 per unit) with TrueVUE analytics to show what is in stock and where each item sits in near real time.
Attendees can learn more at the 2026 NRF Big Show, Jan 11–13, booth #5321.
Accelsius (INV) closed a $65 million Series B led by Johnson Controls with strategic investment from Legrand to scale two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling for AI and HPC. The funding will accelerate expansion of Accelsius’ Austin production facility, support global rollout of its NeuCool® two-phase technology, and fund high-cooling-capacity reference designs for gigawatt-class AI facilities. Company cites 35% OpEx savings versus single-phase D2C and 8–17% TCO improvement; a commercial deployment across a 300 MW campus for DarkNX is noted.
Sensormatic Solutions (NYSE: JCI) launched a PaaS option for TrueVUE Cloud, enabling retailers to deploy TrueVUE inventory analytics on their own cloud platforms while keeping the existing SaaS option. The PaaS offering uses RFID, point-of-sale and operational data, an API-first RESTful design, stateless microservices and SDKs to support integration and scale.
The PaaS suite includes an API library, monitoring dashboard and ISV support and will be available beginning March 2026. NRF Big Show attendees can view demos at booth #5321.
Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) will host its First Quarter Fiscal 2026 earnings conference call on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. ET. Investors can join live via webcast at the company's investor events page where a slide presentation will be available that morning, or by telephone using passcode 927389. A replay will be archived online and available by telephone from 10:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 4, 2026 until 11:59 p.m. ET on Feb. 18, 2026 using passcode 547602.
Sensormatic Solutions (NYSE: JCI) introduced Category-Level Shrink Insights, an ecosystem that uses precision-calibrated acousto-magnetic (AM) EAS technology to deliver category-level shrink analytics and ORC geo-mapping for retailers.
The solution extends existing EAS infrastructure via the Shrink Analyzer application to identify high-risk merchandise categories, provide store-level shrink reporting, predictive tools and video monitoring, and integrate with source-tagging services to improve loss prevention, shopper experience and worker safety. Demonstrations run at NRF Big Show, Jan 11-13, booth #5321.
Sensormatic Solutions (NYSE: JCI) introduced the Flexible Loss-prevention & Engagement Experience (FLEX) platform, a customizable storefront EAS system that combines visual merchandising, digital content management, retail media network readiness and loss-prevention technologies including optional AM, RF and Gen2X RFID.
FLEX is designed to blend into store design, support retail media monetization, improve customer engagement and on-shelf availability, and provide modular alarm and tracking options. The solution is on display at the 2026 NRF Big Show, Jan. 11-13, booth #5321.