Samsung Watch to sport health monitor!

Seoul: South Korean tech giant Samsung is likely to add a body composition monitor that could provide users with a better understanding of their overall health.

The sensor gauges the wearer's body composition, including the proportion of body fat to muscle. According to Max Weinbach, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 will include a bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) sensor, a feature commonly found on smart scales.

BIA is a method to measure the composition, or the percentage of fat to muscle and other tissue, of the human body, Android Authority reported.

The sensor reads the impedance or disruption, of a low voltage current sent through the body.

BIA uses this data to estimate whether a wearer is too lean or obese as bone, muscle, fat, and other tissues have different electrical resistance qualities.

Per Doylestown Health, current BIA sensors usually employ two electrodes positioned on a patient's opposite hand and foot, the report said.

Samsung may get around this by asking the wearer to touch a part of the watch with their other hand, completing the circuit. A patent filed in 2019 (h/t Patently Apple) suggests that Samsung will likely employ this solution.