S3 Group, a connected healthcare technology company, and Texas Instruments have jointly developed a Continua-certified USB-enabled platform for building agent healthcare devices.

The platform consists of TI’s low power MSP430 microcontroller and S3 Group’s EAS embedded agent stack, an 11073 pan device stack, which has been optimised for resource constrained platforms.

“S3 Group has been at the forefront of devising ways to leverage the latest technology to enable faster delivery of telehealth for years, and we are very proud to have been selected by TI for the development of this Continua-certified platform for device manufacturers,” said John Mulcahy, general manager for telehealth at S3 Group.

The aim is for the platform to let OEMs bring personal health devices to market quicker and easier. Both TI and S3 Group are members of the Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open industry organisation of healthcare and technology companies that aims to establish interoperability between personal telehealth products.

“This platform will greatly reduce the development time for our customers by allowing them to focus on refining their applications rather than having to develop the lower-level connectivity layers of software,” said Rajesh Verma, medical business development manager for TI’s MCU business.