The EU Data Act

The EU Data Act represents a paradigm shift with regards to the ownership of Internet of Things (IoT) data. Crucial to know is that the scope of the Data Act applies to all IoT devices and associated digital services, ranging from connected vehicles, smart factory appliances, latest health technologies, devices of the smart grid (such as smart meters), wearables, smart home appliances, etc.

With the EU Data Act IoT product users (so-called data users), which can be natural or legal persons, become the real owner of their data. Accordingly, from 12th Sep 2025 onwards, manufacturers of connected products (so-called data holders)

"shall make readily available data, as well as the relevant metadata necessary to interpret and use those data, accessible to the user without undue delay, of the same quality as is available to the data holder, easily, securely, free of charge, in a comprehensive, structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, where relevant and technically feasible, continuously and in real-time. This shall be done on the basis of a simple request through electronic means where technically feasible." (Art. 4 (1) Data Act)

On the one hand, data revolution wants to support data users to gain access and make most of their IoT data from the product manufacturers. That is why we provide a full-service of requesting access to, receiving, checking the quality of and refining the relevant data via our platform in order to generate the greatest added value for our customers.

On the other hand, data revolution aims at helping data holders to comply with the EU Data Act by securely transferring requested data via our platform to the respective data user.