{"id":119054,"date":"2017-12-04T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T09:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=119054"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T09:04:44","slug":"the-road-to-xl-day-measure-body-fat-onesoftdigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/the-road-to-xl-day-measure-body-fat-onesoftdigm\/","title":{"rendered":"The road to XL Day: measure body fat with OneSoftDigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the High Tech Campus, seven start-ups have been busy with the HighTechXL accelerator program for three months. They are on their way to the XL Day on 6 December, where they can win over future investors. E52 takes a glimpse into the crowd and works towards XL Day with portraits of the start-ups. Today: OneSoftDigm.<\/p>\n<p>The South-Korean start-up OneSoftDigm is participating in the HighTechXL accelerator to expand to the European market. After successfully launching a crowdfunding campaign in their home country, the company thinks it\u2019s time that the rest of the world learned about them. COO Seungmin Yoo talks about how the company was started: \u201cA few years ago, our CEO tried to live healthier. He was exercising, eating healthy and sleeping well, but he still didn\u2019t feel healthy. He had too much body fat, while his BMI was normal. Body fat is very important because too much of it causes diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. But people don\u2019t know how much body fat they have.\u201d That discovery was the start of a mission: make measuring your own health easier.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If someone wants to measure his body fat, they have to go to the gym or a hospital. Our device makes it possible to easily measure your body fat at home.&#8221;<cite>Seungmin Yoo, COO OneSoftDigm<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That led to the development of their first product: One Smart Diet. \u201cWe developed a portable body fat analyzer. The device has four electrodes. If you install the app on your smartphone, the device connects with Bluetooth and can scan the upper side of your body. Because most of the body fat is located in the upper part of your body. The device can measure the body fat, but also skeletal muscle mass, Basal Metabolic Rate, and BMI. With this data, the app makes a summary for the user. It displays the body type and can give dietary and exercise suggestions.\u201d The first version of One Smart Diet launched in South-Korea and Japan last May. \u201cFor four years we have been doing research. At first, we only focussed on the development of the device itself. After finishing that product in January, we are now focussed on the software and the healthcare features.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Measuring your body fat is a complicated process, but the start-up makes it a bit easier: \u201cIf someone wants to measure his body fat, they have to go to the gym or a hospital. Our device makes it possible to easily measure your body fat at home. There are already many body fat analyzers on the market, but they have a low accuracy. We have measured our device with medical devices and we have a 98.8% accuracy.\u201d The high accuracy of One Smart Diet is thanks to an algorithm the start-up developed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.ioplus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DCS_2145.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The algorithm stands or falls with the data collected by the company. In that way, OneSoftDigm is a big data start-up. \u201cThe data is very important to us. We can recommend the right advice for costumers if we collect data from costumers. We believe that the future of healthcare is in mobile solutions, and data plays an important role in this respect.\u201d With this technology, the company hopes to enter the B2B market. \u201cWe are developing an engine to use these technologies in a management system of gyms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal of the start-up is to build a device with which users can know everything about their own bodies. \u201cThere are so many healthcare solutions and wearables on the market right now. We want to combine these two things.\u201d But that is a hope for the future. Right now, the company is preparing the launch of the second generation of One Smart Diet, that will be available in Europe through a Kickstarter campaign early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the High Tech Campus, seven start-ups have been busy with the HighTechXL accelerator program for three months. They are on their way to the XL Day on 6 December, where they can win over future investors. E52 takes a glimpse into the crowd and works towards XL Day with portraits of the start-ups. Today: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":522565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[4379,21873,21870,827,8066,21681],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-119054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-hightechxl-en","tag-one-smart-diet","tag-onesoftdigm","tag-start-ups","tag-xl-day-en","tag-xlday17"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Frans van Beveren","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/frans-van-beveren\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DCS_1842_web-e1512377665122-300x265.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">hightechxl<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">One Smart Diet<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">OneSoftDigm<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">start-ups<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">XL Day<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">XLDay17<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">hightechxl<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">One Smart Diet<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">OneSoftDigm<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">start-ups<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">XL Day<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">XLDay17<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 4, 2017","modified":"Updated on December 4, 2017"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 4, 2017 10:04 am","modified":"Updated on December 4, 2017 10:04 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119054"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=119054"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=119054"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=119054"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=119054"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=119054"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=119054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}