Arbisense
Making sense of humans
Arbisense AB is a Swedish SME, established in 2022, that provides solutions for evaluating human behavior using innovative and scientifically validated technology. Arbisense brings together experienced health scientists and research engineers, specialising in multiple areas, including passive sensing using smartphones, large-scale data collection, Big Data and AI analytics. Arbisense closes the loop by also offering development of professionally polished smartphone and web applications, and cloud deployment.
Services
Arbisense AB provides ready-to-use, yet adaptable, solutions for living environment sensing on a large scale. Our core product, the Arbisense GeoEnv platform, encompasses all necessary functionalities tailored to researchers and policy makers, while also facilitates community engagement:
Smartphone-based data collection
Our smartphone-based data collection platform enables researchers to gather a wide range of real-world data remotely and unobtrusively. Data types include, but are not limited to: photos, photo annotations, GPS location capturing (with anonymization and privacy protection options), and a flexible questionnaire delivery service for pre-planned and just-in-time questionnaire delivery to the users (based on the principles of ecological momentary real world studies). Our app is ideal for deployments/studies that require real-world data collection (short- and long-term) with high user engagement.
Secure EU-based cloud storage
Ideal for supporting large-scale data collection efforts/studies, without jeopardizing the privacy of the participants by sharing personal data to open cloud services. We rely on secure cloud services, located within EU, ideal for supporting large-scale data collection efforts/studies, without jeopardizing the privacy of the participants by sharing personal data to open cloud services.
Advanced data analytics and visualizations
Our flexible web-based dashboard can provide easy information access to the end user, be they policy makers, educators, health scientists or clinical personnel. We offer advanced data visualizations via our GeoEnv dashboard, including various maps presentations, filters and combinatory presentation of collected data. Programmed in Python, our GeoEnv dashboard is flexible and can easily be adapted to give information access to policy makers, educators, health or living environment scientists, clinical personnel and to the end-user. REST API support can also be provided for integration of data and results into other platforms.
Projects
PREVENT — Improve and Upscale Primary Prevention of Cancer by Addressing Childhood Obesity
PREVENT is an EU-funded Action to Improve and Upscale Primary Prevention of Cancer by Addressing Childhood Obesity. Through diligent implementation research and a comprehensive approach, PREVENT aims to lay the foundation for a future where healthier lifestyles are promoted from an early age, reducing cancer risk factors associated with obesity. In PREVENT, Arbisense will employ technological tools in living labs throughout Europe, in an effort to identify gaps in current obesity prevention policies and measure the effectiveness of newly proposed ones. Visit the project website
CONNECT-CARE — Inclusive Healthcare Access and Personalized Health Management for Children and Adolescents
CONNECT-CARE aims to transform healthcare by providing personalized obesity prevention and management strategies and improving bidirectional communication between healthcare professionals and end users. CONNECT-CARE will use cutting-edge technology to track individual health data, such as diet, exercise, weight, and behaviors, and then use AI to predict and prevent diseases at an early stage. Visit the project website
In your phone — about the online food environment of children and their exposure to digital marketing of food and beverages
This project was conducted to gain a deeper understanding of children’s exposure to food and beverage advertisements on social media. By having the children themselves submit screenshots from their social media platforms, the actual exposure to food advertisements could be measured objectively. In total, 49 children (63% girls, 37% boys) in the 13-16 age group participated. The participating schools were located in areas with varying socioeconomic chatacteristics in Stockholm (Östermalm, Tyresö, Farsta, Vårby) and Uppsala (Valsätra-Ultuna). In addition, the project investigated the children’s own thoughts and experiences about food and beverage advertising on social media through focus group discussions. In this study, Arbisense provided the tools for data capturing. Learn more about the study & download the report.
In your face — about children’s food environment and exposure to food advertisements
A project involving children as citizen scientists, aiming to collect location-aware photographs of food and food-related characteristics of their neighbourhoods in an effort to automatically map the urban foodscape environment across areas with different socioeconomic characteristics. Learn more about the study & download the report (Swedish version).
FESKIS — Food Environment South Karolinska Institutet Study
FESKIS explores the current food environment at Karolinska Institutet’s southern campus. The study focuses on three central campus buildings—Neo, Novum, and Zanderska Huset. Using the Mobile Sense app (developed by Arbisense AB), participants log their meals by uploading photos, allowing for detailed analysis of eating patterns. Learn more about the study.
Collaborations
Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence
Since 2023, Arbisense AB is a member of the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence with title “Food Environment Actions for the Promotion of Health” led by ARUA and The Guild. In this cluster, Arbisense AB aims to act as a technology provider for sustainable partnerships between African and European universities. Learn more
Karolinska Institutet
As one of the world’s foremost medical universities, KI accounts for the single largest share of all academic medical research conducted in Sweden. Arbisense AB maintains a strong partnership with research teams at the Karolinska Institutet, actively contributing to their studies with data collection solutions and analysis tools. Learn more
People
Alexandros Papadopoulos, PhD
Technical manager
alpapado@arbisense.com
Ioannis Sarafis, PhD
Project manager
sarafis@arbisense.com
Konstantinos Kyritsis, PhD
Exploitation manager
kokirits@arbisense.com
Get in Touch
We are open to discuss any customization or data types that may be relevant to the your research needs. Our experience with GDPR compliant data collection and analysis processes can ensure compliance within all our tools and services.
Reach out so we can work together to meet your research needs.
info@arbisense.com
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