Medical devices spur growth for software and electronics firm

Embedded systems consultancy ByteSnap Design has announced robust sales in 2023, largely driven by hardware and software projects in the medical devices industry, which has led to the consultancy expanding its core team to 43.

ByteSnap Design has developed software and electronics for many healthcare companies and medical device developers. Healthcare experience coupled with in-depth hardware and software knowledge saw ByteSnap Design secure several new projects.

Most ByteSnap Design’s medtech contracts come from established medical companies that already have accredited product development teams, which ByteSnap works alongside to bring devices to market.

Clients the company has worked with include GCE Healthcare on portable oxygen concentrators, Hark’s new sensor technology for pharmaceuticals, and White Horse Scientific on lab monitoring equipment.

Some existing medical devices are close to obsolescence due to outmoded operating systems which no longer meet security criteria. Such devices require migration to newer supported operating systems. While Windows and Linux operating systems (OS) are selected in many industries, QNX is a robust choice of OS for high-reliability systems that ByteSnap can also offer help integrating.

Graeme Wintle, director of ByteSnap Design, said: “Given the volume of work that is coming our way through referral or repeat business, we are increasing our investment in the area and have taken on additional engineers. We’re a safe pair of hands for our medtech clients and can advise on the issues and pitfalls of designing and bringing their next generation of product to market. A large part of our project work includes extending the life of products that face the risk of obsolescence, thereby saving our clients the high costs of developing and bringing them to market.”

ByteSnap plans to grow its medical devices business by supporting a full choice of operating systems, from Windows 10 IoT Enterprise on ARM to Linux and QNX on a wider range of embedded CPUs.