Airport Asset Upgrade
Noida International Airport Selects Octave Attune EAM to Optimize Operations.
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India's newest airport is going digital from day one. Noida International Airport (NIA) has chosen Octave Attune EAM — formerly known as HxGN EAM — as its core platform for managing critical infrastructure assets, PR Newswire reported on June 24, 2026. The deal extends Octave Intelligence plc's (NASDAQ: OCTV) push into India's fast-growing aviation market.
NIA, also called Jewar Airport, opened its first phase on March 28, 2026, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the facility. Commercial flights began on June 15, 2026, with an inaugural IndiGo service from Lucknow. The airport is built to handle 12 million passengers per year now and scale to 70 million by 2050, according to PR Newswire.
What Octave Attune EAM Actually Does for the Airport
Enterprise asset management (EAM) software is a single system that tracks the full life of physical assets — runways, baggage belts, HVAC systems, and e-gates. Instead of using scattered spreadsheets or separate tools, everything lives in one platform. Octave says its Attune EAM will act as a "single system of record" for NIA's infrastructure, according to PR Newswire.
Because NIA is a greenfield airport — built from scratch with no old systems to replace — it can build this "digital thread" from the ground up. Industry analysts at Verdantix note that only 18% of large industrial firms had successfully centralized data into a cloud platform by 2025. Starting fresh gives NIA a rare head start over older airports still running legacy software.
Octave Intelligence Spun Off From Hexagon Just Months Ago
Octave Intelligence is a brand-new company. Hexagon AB officially spun off its software divisions — including asset management, safety, and geospatial tools — into Octave Intelligence plc on March 2, 2026, according to Verdantix. The new firm listed on NASDAQ under the ticker OCTV. The NIA deal is one of its first major wins as an independent company.
Attune EAM was previously called HxGN EAM under the Hexagon brand. Octave kept the core technology but rebranded and refocused the product as a pure SaaS offering. The company says the NIA deployment will help "unleash intelligence at scale" across India's aviation sector, per PR Newswire.
NIA's Massive Scale Makes Smart Asset Management Critical
NIA is designed to grow through four phases. It will eventually have up to six runways and cover nearly 11,750 acres. The first runway stretches 3,900 meters — long enough for wide-body aircraft. The total project cost is around ₹29,650 crore (roughly $3.5 billion USD), according to property research firm 99acres.
Flight volumes started small — just 12 flights per day in June 2026 — but the airport targets 40 to 42 daily flights by July 2026, per The Indian Express. CEO Nitu Samra has set a goal of 5 million passengers within the first 10 to 12 months. Deploying EAM software now lets the airport use predictive maintenance tools before problems — like baggage delays or power failures — have a chance to develop.
India's Airport Boom Drives Demand for New Tech Solutions
NIA is part of a broader surge in Indian aviation. India grew its number of operational airports from 74 in 2014 to 163 by 2025, according to PR Newswire. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu has framed NIA as a key piece of India's goal to reach 350 to 400 airports by 2047. NIA is also designed to relieve congestion at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, which has long run near full capacity.
NIA is also aiming to be India's first net-zero airport, according to engineering firm Jacobs. Zurich Airport International AG, which owns and operates the airport through its subsidiary YIAPL, signed a 40-year concession deal in 2020. Vice Chairman Christoph Schnellmann has described the airport's goal as combining "Swiss efficiency with Indian hospitality," per The Indian Express.
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