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Self-hosted / open sourceIoT & EmbeddedHeadquarters: SE

Diwise: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Diwise is an open-source IoT communication platform and City Information platform. It receives sensor data from several sources and can control physical control systems, so that business systems do not depend on specific sensor types or network technologies. It is modular and uses FIWARE and NGSI-LD data models. It is server software that you install yourself, for example with Docker Compose, aimed at municipalities and other organisations with sensor networks.

Diwise comes from Sweden: the project grew out of a Vinnova-funded project and the GitHub organisation is based in Sundsvall. No separate legal entity is named as responsible for the project. The source code is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence and is actively updated; the repositories were last changed on 13 October 2026. According to the project site, the platform runs on-premises or in a Swedish cloud. If you run it yourself, sensor and management data stay within your own environment.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
SE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
IoT & Embedded
Type
Product
Website
diwise.se ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Diwise

The European alternatives to Diwise come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Diwise

Diwise is headquartered in SE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Diwise scores best on data residency.

Diwise is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Diwise together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Diwise?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Diwise include 1NCE, Actility ThingPark and Ágata Technology. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Diwise?

Our list of EU alternatives to Diwise is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Diwise GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Diwise is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Diwise an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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