Self-hosted / open sourceIoT & EmbeddedHeadquarters: DE

Revolution Pi: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Revolution Pi is an industrial computing platform based on the Raspberry Pi, comprising DIN-rail PCs, I/O modules and gateways for industrial automation, soft PLC, edge computing, IIoT and human-machine interface applications. It runs a Linux operating system based on Raspberry Pi OS. The devices are mounted on a DIN rail and operate on the customer's own equipment in their own installations.

The platform is developed by KUNBUS GmbH, registered in Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany. The vendor states that the product is developed and produced in Germany. It describes the operating system as open Linux without licence fees, but the product page does not name a specific software licence, so the hardware platform is not treated as open source. Because the devices run on the organisation's own infrastructure, control and data stay with the user. The IIoT gateway transmits data to the cloud; the website does not name the cloud operator involved.

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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	DE (EU)Verified 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	revolutionpi.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Revolution Pi

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Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Revolution Pi

Revolution Pi 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.

Revolution Pi 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.

Revolution Pi 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 Revolution Pi 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 Revolution Pi?

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

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

Is Revolution Pi GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Revolution Pi is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Revolution Pi 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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