Lab Software · Cloud

Vendor-Agnostic Cloud Platforms for Lab Instruments

QPillars builds remote-monitoring and cloud platforms for laboratory instruments without OEM lock-in. Multi-vendor, customer-owned data, GxP-aware. Reference build: Ridgeview Instruments AB - 5 months from kickoff to production.

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What We Build

Cloud platforms that work across instrument vendors and are owned by the customer.

Vendor-Agnostic by Design

Most OEM-branded clouds lock you to that vendor's instruments. Our platforms work across multiple vendors - one cloud, many instrument families. Your instruments, your cloud, your data, your contracts with downstream customers.

Real-Time Streaming + Edge Resilience

MQTT and gRPC over TLS for streaming. Edge agents that buffer through network outages and resume cleanly. Built for labs where the network is not a given.

GxP-Aware Architecture

Audit trails, electronic-signature support, time-zone-correct timestamps, immutable run history. Designed to fit a 21 CFR Part 11 / Annex 11 environment - the validation work is yours, the architecture supports it.

Customer-Owned Data

We deploy on your AWS, Azure, GCP, or self-hosted infrastructure. You own the data, the compliance footprint, and the contracts with your downstream customers. Run data stays on your infrastructure.

What our clients say

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What impressed me the most about them is their passion to deliver good products. QPillars has been an integral part of our team - their deep understanding of instrument software has been transformative for our product development.

Dr. Andreas Frutiger

VP of R&D, Lino Biotech AG

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Their rapid understanding of our needs, agile way of working, and communication stood out. They delivered exactly what we needed - reliable, well-engineered software for our LigandTracer instruments.

Jos Buijs

CEO, Ridgeview Instruments AB

Frequently Asked Questions

An instrument cloud platform is a software layer that connects laboratory instruments to a centralised data and control plane. Operators monitor runs from anywhere, data streams to a data lake or LIMS, and operators can intervene remotely when policy allows. It is the bridge between physical instruments and modern cloud-native lab software.

OEM-branded clouds connect to that vendor's instruments. They are excellent for single-vendor labs, but break down when you have a mixed fleet, when you want vendor-neutral data ownership, or when procurement insists on no shared-infrastructure dependencies. We build vendor-agnostic platforms - one cloud, many instrument families, customer-owned. The architecture supports mixed-vendor fleets as a structural property.

Yes - that is the core use case. We bridge proprietary vendor APIs, SiLA 2 servers, and serial / GPIB legacy interfaces into a unified cloud data model. The hard part is the schema mapping; we treat it as a first-class deliverable.

The platform architecture supports GxP and 21 CFR Part 11 - audit trails, electronic-signature flows, immutable timestamps, role-based access. Validation evidence is your QMS work; we provide the architecture, the documentation, and validation impact assessments. We have shipped instrument software in clinical-grade IVD environments before.

MQTT (lightweight, ideal for edge agents), gRPC (typed, high-throughput), and AWS IoT or Azure IoT Hub when the cloud provider is fixed. The choice depends on data volume, latency requirements, and whether the instrument is on a controlled network.

You do. Always. We deploy on your cloud account or on-premise. Customer run data stays on customer infrastructure - this is structural, and it removes a procurement-blocker that many vendor clouds cannot resolve.

We design edge agents to operate disconnected for hours-to-days. Run data is buffered locally with a durable write log; when connectivity returns, the agent reconciles the cloud state. Operators on the bench can complete runs without the cloud being available - a hard requirement in pharma manufacturing labs.

Need a multi-vendor instrument cloud?

We will scope a vendor-agnostic cloud platform on your AWS, Azure, or on-prem in one week. Fixed-price.

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