EU Report Finds IoT Standardisation Gaps, Prompting Push for Digital Sovereignty

A July 2026 study titled “IoT Standardisation Gaps Release 2”, produced by StandICT, AIOTI and EUOS, identifies numerous gaps in European Internet‑of‑Things standards. The analysis highlights shortcomings in interoperability, security, edge‑computing, data‑model APIs, digital twins, AI integration and emerging immersive industrial technologies. It calls for stronger coordination among European standardisation bodies to enable large‑scale, interoperable IoT deployments across sectors such as manufacturing, smart grids, oil‑and‑gas and robotics.

Separately, Spanish IoT firm Libelium has published a whitepaper describing how its architecture implements the European Union’s EuroStack model for digital sovereignty. Backed by a €300 billion public investment in the EuroStack initiative, the paper details deployments like the Alhambra Living Lab, which uses IoT sensors, cloud infrastructure hosted within the EU (OVHcloud) and ENS‑certified security to keep data under European jurisdiction. The combined findings underscore a growing EU focus on building autonomous, secure and interoperable digital infrastructure.