Non-EU vendorIoT & EmbeddedHeadquarters: US

Kaa IoT: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kaa IoT is an enterprise platform for managing connected devices, collecting and analysing their data, and sending remote commands and over-the-air updates. It includes a rule engine and integrations with other systems, and it supports LPWAN, short-range, cellular and Ethernet connectivity. The vendor offers a hosted cloud service. The Kaa Community Edition is also available as a source code project on GitHub.

The company behind the product is KaaIoT Technologies LLC, a Delaware limited liability company whose principal place of business is in Florida according to its privacy policy. The website does not state who owns the company or where the hosted platform runs. The privacy policy says personal data may be processed wherever the company, its affiliates or its service providers have facilities. Because the provider is American, US law may apply to the hosted service. European organisations that want to operate the platform themselves can review the open source edition, provided its licence and maintenance are confirmed first. The privacy policy does not mention the GDPR.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 11, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	IoT & Embedded
Type	Product
Website	kaaiot.com ↗

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

The European alternatives to Kaa IoT come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Kaa IoT

Kaa IoT is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Kaa IoT hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Kaa IoT is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Kaa IoT?

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

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

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

Kaa IoT is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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