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3D body scanner for stores, showrooms
and tailoring: a buyer's guide

Scanning booth or smartphone? A buyer's guide to 3D body scanners for stores, showrooms and tailoring: requirements, measurements, integrations, privacy.

Updated October 2026

In short

A 3D body scanner produces a 3D model of the body and a set of anthropometric measurements, used for made-to-measure, size charts and product development. The core choice is between a fixed booth, suited to a store or showroom with a permanent location, and video scanning on a smartphone, suited to measuring people remotely or across several sites. Before choosing, be clear about what the measurements are for and where they will end up.

Before the how, the why

The question that shapes the decision is not technical: it is about how the data will be used. There are four common uses, and each brings its own requirements.

• Made-to-measure production. Garments built on the customer's actual measurements, with no manual transcription.
• Proprietary size charts. Size tables built on your own customer base rather than generic standard tables.
• Body shape analysis. The distribution of body shapes in your segment, to inform design, production sizing and assortment.
• Product development. Real measurements fed straight into the CLO3D workflow.

Booth or smartphone: the two routes

The two are not mutually exclusive. A showroom can host the 3D Body Scanner and use ScanFlow for clients who cannot visit in person.

Practical requirements for a booth

• Assembled booth: 2,195 mm high, 1,212 mm deep, 1,190 mm wide.
• Space: around 1.7 m², plus 1 m² for the changing area.
• Power: standard socket, 230V / 50Hz or 115V / 60Hz; power consumption 200W.

Before requesting a quote, check the available floor space, where the changing area will go, the power socket and the network. Installation, calibration and training for the people who will run the booth are agreed with the supplier.

Store, showroom, atelier: what changes

• Store. Scanning becomes part of the in-store experience and can feed size recommendation through SizeFlow, which supports integration with a physical body scanner.
• B2B showroom. Scans for agents and retailers, with orders built on real measurements.
• Atelier and bespoke tailoring. Measurements used directly in production. For clients far away, smartphone scanning with operator validation removes the need to travel.
• Production. Measurements go into the CLO3D workflow, cutting manual steps in sampling.

Check the benefit on your own case: decide in advance what to measure, such as alterations on a made-to-measure garment, and compare before and after.

Body data and privacy

A person's 3D model and measurements are personal data. The questions to ask cover where processing takes place, where and for how long profiles are stored, who can access them, how consent is collected and how deletion requests are handled.

In the WeWear booth, processing happens locally on the 4 mini PCs and output is available on the management PC. In ScanFlow, profiles approved by the operator remain on the platform for later use. Documentation on data processing is available on request.

WeWear's answer, criterion by criterion

Questions to ask any supplier, WeWear included

• Which measurements does the system return, and in what format can they be exported?
• Who checks the measurements before they reach production?
• How much space, what power supply and what network are needed, and what is included in the supply?
• How does it integrate with CLO3D, with size recommendation and with our management systems?
• Where is body data processed and stored, for how long, and who can access it?
• How are consent and deletion requests handled?

Technical sheet and quote

Tell us where you would install the booth, who would use it and what you need from the measurements, or whether you work with clients remotely. We reply with a recommended configuration and a quote.

3D Body Scanner, the booth  ·  ScanFlow, smartphone scanning

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