Hexagon AB
“GIS, BIM and digital twins for live airports.”
10+ years of ground presence across the GCC.
Inferred from public airline fleet data, airport tender awards, and aerospace certification records. Verified figures appear once the supplier claims their profile.
Company brief
Hexagon AB is a Stockholm-headquartered global technology group founded in 1970 that operates across measurement, positioning, and geospatial software. Its Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division is the unit relevant to airport operations, supplying software for real-time situational awareness, geospatial data management, asset and facility management, and operations analytics that airport authorities and air navigation service providers use to monitor airside and landside activity. The airport-operations offering draws heavily on technology brought in through acquisitions, most notably Intergraph (acquired 2010) and Luciad (acquired October 2017). Luciad, originally a 1999 spin-off from KU Leuven and based in Leuven, Belgium, contributes a geospatial visualisation stack — LuciadFusion (server-side data management), LuciadLightspeed (desktop analytics), LuciadRIA (web 3D situational awareness) and LuciadCPillar (developer API) — that is applied to aviation through partnerships with bodies such as Eurocontrol and Airbus Defence and Space. Hexagon describes products under the HxGN brand for airport operations, but the public airport-operations landing page could not be retrieved during this extraction, so specific named airport customers are not asserted here. Geographically, Hexagon reports operations across roughly 50 countries with about 24,000 employees, with a long-standing European base (Sweden, Belgium, Germany, UK), a substantial US footprint inherited from Intergraph (Huntsville, Alabama), and regional offices across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Gulf-specific presence is plausible given the multinational scope but is not evidenced by a source quotable in this extraction, so it is not claimed. Hexagon AB is publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. No aviation-specific certifications (FAA TSO, EASA, AS9100) were named in the sources retrieved, and the company's airport offering is software-led rather than hardware-equipment-led.
Indexed product lines
Server-based geospatial data management platform used for aggregating and serving aviation and airport spatial data.
Desktop geospatial analysis application for 2D/3D visualisation and analytics.
Web-based 3D situational awareness tool applied to aviation and airport operations contexts.
Developer API for embedding Luciad geospatial capabilities into custom applications.
Operating in 5 countries
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