Building the Grid's Engineering Data Foundation

Data centers, inverter-based resources, electrification, and AI are raising engineering questions faster than utility architectures were built to answer. On Innovation Force's Piloting the Future, Kim Getgen and Lee Krevat talk with PingThings CEO Sean Murphy about why the next challenge is not collecting more data. It is building a common, vendor-agnostic engineering foundation. They discuss how data silos slow innovation, why engineers need immediate access to trustworthy operational evidence, and why utilities should treat grid data as an enduring asset. No one knows what the grid's biggest problem will be in five years.