- Hionos
ABIONICA Solutions and HIONOS works together in UAV Certification - Press Release
Paris / Alicante, January 11, 2021 - Hionos - company specialized in certified flight
controller software solutions for manned and unmanned aircrafts -, signs a
Collaboration Agreement with Abionica Solutions - specialized company in systems
engineering, avionics and UAVs certification support -, to offer to their customers a
unique joint services guaranteeing the success of their UAS projects.

The collaboration between Abionica and Hionos achieves to assist customers in the
entire UAS project life-cycle and covers the specific needs of safety-critical systems
development, both at high and low level, respectively. Those joint services offer to the
customer a unique value proposition that guarantees the optimization of resources
and time, the reliability of proposed solutions, and the success of the project.
Abionica Solutions is an engineering company with proven expertise in systems
engineering, avionics and UAS Certification in the UAV industry. Abionica gained
international overview working on large-scale projects, such as TARGUS OPV - the
biggest drone to obtain the Airworthiness Certification in Spain. Due to its experience
and know-how, the Spanish company will provide services during system definition
and design phases, and certification support for their UAS customers.
Hionos is a French company gathering safety-critical software engineers with sound
experience in DO-178C software development, for avionics and drone industry. Hionos
develops highly reliable software solutions for drones. In this context, Hionos will work
with the customer during prototyping phases; and as long as the project requires it,
they will share their Pulsar Factory framework with Abionica to integrate it into the UAS
development process. Pulsar Factory is a solution which allows the manufacturer to
customize Hionos certified autopilot (Pulsar) to easily integrate specific models, such
as control and command laws of the dedicated drone, to make rapid prototypes and
flight tests.
Abionica and Hionos join forces to work together on the following segments: General
Aviation Avionics, Manned to Unmanned conversions, Certified Category UAVs, and
Air Taxi in Urban Air Mobility context. Both companies share capabilities to make a
joint bit in the development of critical avionics systems for the unmanned aviation
sectors.
Contacts :
Hionos - Amin Elmrabti - amin.elmrabti@hionos.com
ABIONICA Solutions - Cristina Quiñonero Águila - cquinonero@abionica.com