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KEBA: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

KEBA is an automation company from Linz, Austria, founded in 1968. Its industrial automation business offers the Kemro X automation platform, which the company describes as open and aimed at machine and robot manufacturers, together with operating panels and HMIs, controllers, I/Os, servo drives, motors and safety technology. The KEBA DIGITAL business area adds digital advisory, software development, digital products and software operations. The products are hardware and software that machine builders and plant operators install in their own machines and facilities.

KEBA is headquartered in Austria, in the EU. According to the company, the shares of KEBA Group AG are held by six named individuals rather than by a corporate parent. KEBA employs about 2,100 people in 16 countries. The platform is described as open, but the sources do not state that it is open source. Because the control software runs on hardware owned by the customer, data can stay entirely within the customer's own environment.

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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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	AT (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in AT (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	IoT & Embedded
Type	Product
Website	keba.com ↗

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 KEBA

The European alternatives to KEBA 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 KEBA

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

KEBA 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.

KEBA 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 KEBA 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 KEBA?

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

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

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

KEBA is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in AT. That makes KEBA 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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