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.
The company's Forge platform finds itself central again as it collects and prepares industrial data for AI model training and inferencing, and provides industry-critical AI operations capabilities. At its recent user event, Honeywell shared the next steps in its IoT platform evolution, including a heightened focus on AI and generative AI.
The company is evolving its industrial software business by updating widely used applications with new AI capabilities while road-mapping critical new ones. Tried-and-true applications like Honeywell Experion are getting a machine learning and GenAI boost as the industrial vendor drives AI-enabled automation into mission-critical customer environments.
The vendor continues to advance its digital solutions, aimed at the requirements of its heavy industry and manufacturing customer base. We spoke with Eaton's Brightlayer team to understand the evolution of the platform and the specific needs and adoption timelines of its customers.
The majority of enterprise IoT projects succeed, with 76% meeting or exceeding expectations due to effective organizational and technical strategies, according to 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things, Enterprise IoT Check-In 2024 survey.
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