S3 is uniquely positioned to act as the development partner and systems integrator for clients building gateway products with integrated healthcare applications or when adding healthcare sensor technologies to mobile gateway platforms, Set-Top Boxes or dedicated devices.
Health gateways provide consumers with a user friendly interface to both their service provider and their personal health data. It is the service provider’s main point of presence for the consumer. The role of Health Gateways in Telemonitoring Systems is evolving. Current gateways collect specific health data from proprietary wired or wireless sensor devices, augment it with questionnaires to assess the patient’s mood and then transfer the collated results to dedicated telemonitoring enterprise back ends over low-speed analog POTS lines.
In the future interface standardization, universal broadband access, multimedia and larger deployments will mean that health gateway devices will interoperate with sensor devices from multiple vendors over Bluetooth, USB, Zigbee or low-power short-range wireless interfaces. New services will be delivered to Consumers taking advantage of the higher speed broadband links. Video based social inclusion and networking will be possible. In some systems, the consumer’s television will become the primary display device. Bill of Materials optimization will be crucial to enable large scale deployments.
S3 has been designing solutions for clients in the Digital Consumer market space since 1990 and has an established leadership position in System Level Design and Integration for the latest digital television products for cable, satellite, terrestrial and broadband IPTV networks. S3 delivers complete system integration services across the full broadcast delivery value chain as well as software solutions mobile DTV. This leadership position, coupled with S3's experience in delivering telemonitoring and lifestyle products and solutions, allows home and mobile gateway vendors get their healthcare enabled products to market faster.