Soracom's public debut gives a lift to the IoT connectivity sector
Rich Karpinski is principal analyst and channel lead for the 451 Research Internet of Things and Applied Infrastructure & DevOps channels within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Rich tracks, analyzes and anticipates the pace and direction of IoT adoption, as well as the use of IoT to enable vertical industry transformation. As part of that work, he oversees a quarterly survey of IoT adopters and a twice-annual survey of operations technology (OT) professionals. Before joining 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global Market Intelligence in 2019), Rich was mobile services analyst for Yankee Group and a technology editor for a range of industry publications in both telecom and enterprise IT. Rich’s recent areas of concentration include IoT connectivity and managed platform services, IoT edge computing, IT/OT collaboration, IoT market sizing and data flow analysis, IoT digital maturity analysis, and the adoption of IoT use cases across a variety of sectors. Rich holds holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Science degree from Syracuse University.
Mobile World Congress is back, with 100,000-plus attendees and a worldview that has expanded beyond telecom to fully encompass the best of telco, IT and enterprise technology, from telco to techco. In this report, 451 Research and Kagan Research analysts share their high-level perspectives on the event.
Enterprises deploying IoT say they consider cost and technical chops most heavily when choosing vendors. Meanwhile, they place 5G, as-a-service infrastructure and AI as their top technology priorities.
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