OPEN SOURCE · SERVICES
Free to use. We help you put it into service.
Kionel is free and open source: every feature, no licence file, no account. What a laboratory or plant usually needs on top is someone to fit it to a real instrument workflow, document it for an audit and keep it running. That is what we sell.
Describe your workflow Source code on GitHub
Services
| Service | What you get |
|---|---|
| Workflow integration | We map one instrument or station export (folder, CSV, Excel, PDF) to the right Kionel route: screen and camera, printed pages, USB with signed records, or a one-way serial cable. You get the site policy, receiver cards, a tested setup and a short operator guide. |
| Validation support | We run the IQ/OQ validation pack with you on your hardware, fill the evidence, and write the risk assessment and the procedure your quality system asks for (ISO/IEC 17025, GLP/GMP, 21 CFR Part 11, ALCOA+). The validation decision stays yours. |
| Offline roll-out | The offline package checked by SHA-256, device enrolment and signing keys (Windows TPM, Android StrongBox), and a tested way to update isolated PCs. |
| Continuous serial link | An unattended one-way folder link over a serial data diode, set up and monitored for a production line or an instrument that exports all day. |
| Support agreement | Email support with agreed response times, help with updates, and a named contact. Annual. |
| Commercial licence | For a closed-source product or hosted service that embeds Kionel and cannot meet the AGPL's obligations. |
How it works
- Write to us with the instrument or station, what leaves it, where it must arrive and which rules apply. No real data, please.
- A 30-minute call to agree the scope.
- A fixed-price quote for that scope, in writing. Work is remote by default.
- Handover: the setup, the documents and the test evidence are yours. Everything runs without us.
Licences
| Part | Licence | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Kionel application, protocol and site | AGPL-3.0 | Use, study, change and share it. If you distribute a changed version, or run one as a network service, you publish its source under the same licence. |
Record verifiers (@kionel/crypto and the verify tools) | Apache-2.0 | Permissive, so an auditor can check a record years later without us and without AGPL obligations. |
| Commercial licence | By agreement | For a closed-source product or service that embeds Kionel and cannot meet the AGPL's obligations. |
Who you work with
Kionel is built by Taha Bayar at Lumina Digitale (Ankara, Türkiye), who also wrote the method preprint. You deal with the person who wrote the code. That is also a continuity risk for an institution, which is why the source is open and the verifier is permanently Apache-2.0: if we disappear, your records stay verifiable and the software stays usable.
What stays true
- File content never reaches our server; the transfer happens between your two devices.
- Services never require you to send us your data.
- Kionel has not had an independent security audit yet. The security page lists the current status and the limits page what it does not do.