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thingdust: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

thingdust is a workplace occupancy measurement service from thingdust AG in Lucerne, Switzerland. Small wireless sensors detect whether desks and meeting rooms are in use, and the results appear in a dashboard with a scenario simulator. The Analysis package runs for a limited period, with installation, a dashboard and a final report with recommendations; Live shows free desks and meeting rooms on lobby screens, phones or browsers, without an app or login. According to the vendor, no images, audio or personal identifiers are collected.

The vendor is a Swiss stock corporation seated in Lucerne; no parent company is stated. According to its security page, the platform runs on Microsoft Azure in West Europe, with a Swiss hosting provider available on request; the country is not named. Microsoft is a US company. Measurement data belongs to the customer and can be downloaded as CSV. Switzerland is not in the EU but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • 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

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Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
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Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
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EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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The European alternatives to thingdust come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 thingdust

thingdust 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so thingdust scores best on data residency.

thingdust 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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What is the best European alternative to thingdust?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to thingdust include 1NCE, Actility ThingPark and Ágata Technology. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to thingdust?

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

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

thingdust is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes thingdust an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

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