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LORIOT: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

LORIOT is a network management system for LoRaWAN and mioty low-power wide-area networks. Its software includes a LoRaWAN network server and a mioty service centre, and it can run on the vendor's public servers, on private servers or on-premises. Operators use it to manage gateways, devices and data in large IoT deployments, including hybrid networks that combine both technologies.

LORIOT AG is a Swiss company founded in 2015, with its registered seat in Langnau am Albis and offices in Zurich, Valencia and Budapest. The website does not name its owners or investors, and it does not state in which country its public servers are hosted. For a European organisation, Switzerland is a European jurisdiction, but where data is processed depends on whether a public, private or on-premises server is chosen. That choice should be recorded in the contract and in the hosting documentation.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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
HeadquartersCH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingCHVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryIoT & Embedded
TypeProduct
Websiteloriot.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to LORIOT

The European alternatives to LORIOT 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 LORIOT

LORIOT is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

LORIOT hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

LORIOT 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.

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

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

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

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

LORIOT is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes LORIOT 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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