Self-hosted / open sourceIoT & EmbeddedHeadquarters: DE

openHAB: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

openHAB is free, open-source software for home and building automation that runs on your own hardware. It supports a broad range of technologies and systems and offers rules, scripts and voice control. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, Docker and Synology and is written in Java on Apache Karaf. Users who want remote access can use the free myopenhab.org service or host their own cloud connection.

The software is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 2.0, as stated in the licence file of the openHAB core repository. It is maintained by the openHAB Foundation e.V., a German registered association listed in the Darmstadt register of associations, so no commercial parent company or foreign owner controls it. Because the software runs on local hardware, customer data stays on the user's own equipment. The hosting location of the optional myopenhab.org service is not stated. A European organisation can run openHAB entirely on its own infrastructure and avoid depending on a hosted service.

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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 10, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	IoT & Embedded
Type	Product
Website	openhab.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to openHAB

The European alternatives to openHAB 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 openHAB

openHAB is headquartered in DE 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 openHAB scores best on data residency.

openHAB 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 openHAB 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 openHAB?

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

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

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

openHAB is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes openHAB 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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