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Self-hosted / open sourceIoT & EmbeddedHeadquarters: NL

Homey: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Homey is a smart home platform made by Athom B.V. Users control and automate devices from many brands in one app, with scenes, dashboards and apps built by the developer community. It is sold as a local hub (Homey Pro and Homey Pro mini), as a cloud service (Homey Cloud) and as a self-hosted server. According to the website, Athom does not sell user data and does not serve advertising.

Athom is based in Enschede, the Netherlands. Since July 2024, LG Electronics, a South Korean group headquartered in Seoul, has held a majority stake, and LG has announced it will acquire the remaining shares within three years. Athom says it still operates independently of LG. The Homey website does not say where Homey Cloud data is stored. Organisations that want automation data to stay on their own equipment can use a local Homey hub or the self-hosted server.

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Sovereignty score
80 / 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-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 12, 2026
Headquarters
NL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
KRVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
IoT & Embedded
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Homey

The European alternatives to Homey come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Homey

Homey is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in KR. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Homey runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Homey is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Homey 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 Homey?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Homey 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 Homey?

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

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

Homey is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Homey 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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Compliance evidence

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