Rich Karpinski is principal analyst and channel lead for the Internet of Things and Applied Infrastructure & DevOps channels at 451 Research from S&P Global Energy Horizons. 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. 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. Before joining 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global in 2019), Rich was a mobile services analyst for Yankee Group and a technology editor for a range of industry publications in both telecom and enterprise IT. Rich holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Science degree from Syracuse University.
Energy and utilities companies are scaling AI rapidly across both enterprise and operational use cases, with a particularly strong appetite for more autonomous modes of operation. However, this broad adoption is not translating cleanly into value. AI project delivery remains uneven, with mixed near-term ROI, data challenges limiting performance and higher project termination rates than other industries.
Despite current geopolitical turmoil, Mobile World Congress was still a hotbed of everything new and next. Analysts Raul Castañon-Martinez and Rich Karpinski join host Eric Hanselman to discuss what they saw in Barcelona and what it portends for not only telecom players, but also the wider technology ecosystem.
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