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Eclipse IoT: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Eclipse IoT is the IoT open-source community within the Eclipse Foundation. It brings together projects for IoT, edge computing and related uses. Well-known parts include Eclipse Mosquitto, a lightweight MQTT broker for MQTT 5.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1 that also runs on small boards; Eclipse Hono, which connects devices to back-end applications through a single API over HTTP, MQTT, AMQP and CoAP; and Eclipse Ditto for digital twins. It is not one product with one service, but a collection of building blocks that you select, install and operate yourself. The projects are released under open-source licences, such as the Eclipse Public License.

The Eclipse Foundation is an international not-for-profit association chartered in the European Union (AISBL), headquartered in Brussels. Because Eclipse IoT is not a hosted service, you decide where your data runs and who operates the infrastructure. The source code is public, so you are not tied to a single vendor. For a European organisation this does require in-house operating capacity or a partner that provides support.

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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 2, 2026
HeadquartersBE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalRCC-RDC-AS - Rogers Communications Canada Inc., CA (CA)Technically measured
CategoryIoT & Embedded
TypeProduct
Websiteiot.eclipse.org ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Eclipse IoT

The European alternatives to Eclipse IoT come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Eclipse IoT

Eclipse IoT is headquartered in BE 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 Eclipse IoT scores best on data residency.

Eclipse IoT 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 Eclipse IoT 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 Eclipse IoT?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Eclipse IoT?

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

Is Eclipse IoT GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

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

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in IoT & Embedded

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