Hi there,
I have a project for which I'm using the Apple Watch to monitor the status of a Health Device. This Health Device is a shirt the user wears, communicating heart rate and respiration (among others metrics) through Bluetooth LE. The challenge is that we have to monitor the status of this Health Device with the Apple Watch, warning the user if the signal quality becomes inadequate throughout the day.
One of the constraint is that I have to monitor the signal quality even if the application goes in background mode (which happens quite often in the Apple Watch!). So I discovered there's not a lot of ways to do that, but found that Health Kit gives this possibility. My question is: would it be possible to use Health Kit to monitor our Health Device status even though I'm not querying the Apple Watch heart rate? I'm querying the Health Device status and metrics through our proprietary serial port.
I know it's possible to run the app in the background by using HKWorkoutSession, but I want to know if this kind of usage would be accepted in the B2B Apple Store. If it's not acceptable, what other possibility could there be?
Thanks a lot!