What are the User input requirements for BodyScan?

Summary
In this section, we'll go through the key phases of the BodyScan Process and what's required from a partner to integrate it into their app ecosystem.

There are four important elements that a partner will need to address before triggering the MultiScan SDK.

Remote Assets

To reduce the file size of our MultiScan SDK and ultimately your app, we delay the download of certain files essential to the SDK until they’re needed by your user. The download trigger for the Remote Assets will need to be implemented by a partner and is required for the scan to operate.

See Remote Asset Management for more information.

User Input

The BodyScan requires the following biometric inputs from your users in order to start.

User Input
  • Height
  • Weight
  • Sex
  • Age
Scan Outputs
  • Chest Circumference
  • Waist Circumference
  • Hips Circumference
  • Thigh Circumference
  • Body Fat Percentage

These inputs are the bare minimum for the BodyScan to operate and return the above results. You may want to ask additional questions before (or after) a scan to create contextual data, allowing for more in-depth insights about your user's health.

See BodyScan Fact Sheet for more information on derived data and contextual data.

Scan Guide

In the Technology Demo App, we show a scanning guide to users before they go through the BodyScan capture process. It explains important information that will assist in getting accurate, repeatable, and error-free results.The guide contains:

  • Spacial and environmental requirements, like good lighting and 14ft/4m space.
  • Clothing requirements, like to wear form-fitting clothes, avoiding anything baggy.
  • Device placement requirements, like placing phone camera at hips height, propping it up against a solid object (pot plant, water bottle).

See Supporting Users During BodyScan on how to educate users about the scan process.


Internet Connection

An active network connection is required to download the remote assets and to trigger billing events.