Afstandsassets

Afstandsassets is a term occasionally used in Danish technology discourse to describe assets that are accessed, managed, or deployed from a distance. It is not a formally defined category, and its precise meaning varies among sources. The word combines afstand, meaning distance, with assets, signaling a focus on distributed or remote resource management.

In practice, afstandsassets is used to refer to digital resources and equipment that are not located on a single on-site system. Examples include cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, remote sensors and industrial IoT devices, offsite data backups, and software components deployed across multiple locations. The common thread is centralized governance of dispersed resources, enabling oversight, control, and automation from a single interface.

Key considerations for afstandsassets include security and access control, data sovereignty and compliance, monitoring and incident response, versioning and configuration management, and latency or reliability issues that can affect performance. Because resources are distributed, visibility into asset state and provenance is essential.

The term remains informal and is not standardized in international ICT vocabularies. It can appear in vendor literature, project documentation, and regional discussions as a descriptive label rather than a formal category. In broader contexts, afstandsassets aligns with concepts such as remote asset management, cloud assets, Internet of Things ecosystems, and digital twins.

See also: remote asset management, cloud computing, IoT, digital twin.