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The Current State of Asset Management | Asset Panda's Rex Kurzius | Internet of Things Podcast

IoT For All Podcast · 29 Nov 2022 · 24m

What this episode covers

Rex Kurzius, CEO and founder of Asset Panda, explains how his company evolved from solving internal IT asset tracking issues in a consulting firm to building a flexible, cloud-based platform for enterprise asset management. He distinguishes between simple asset tracking and comprehensive lifecycle management, emphasizing that IoT data must be integrated into human workflows to drive adoption and ROI. Kurzius discusses the shift from hardware-centric tracking to software-defined solutions leveraging smartphones and Bluetooth/NFC tags, and highlights the importance of role-based security and user-centric design to overcome adoption hurdles.

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