vibeDifferent signals.
One connected view.
The Vibe app contributes signals from the way people use it: check-ins, interests, events, plans and sharing. Venue sensors add another view of activity in physical places.
Vibe AI contributes to the network alongside these sources. Together, they give the lab more context for understanding the city than a single source could provide.
How activity becomes useful.
Collect signals
Bring together information from the app, venue sensors and Vibe AI. Different sources have different permissions, coverage and limits.
Process and check
Prepare the data for analysis and examine its quality. A missing reading, an old listing and a current observation should not be treated as the same thing.
Understand the patterns
Study how activity changes across places and time. Look for relationships, test explanations and distinguish estimates from observations.
Put the insight to work
Use what we learn in the app, tools for venues and research about city life. The goal is a useful outcome for the people behind the data.
A closer view of a place.
In the room
Venue sensors contribute readings about activity in a physical space. They complement the signals people contribute through the app.
Across time
Repeated readings can show how a place fills, changes and quietens. Their value comes from context and analysis.
Connected to the lab
The readings become one input to the wider network. Sensor data and personal app data have different roles and privacy considerations.
The distinction matters.
A picture of city activity is different from a personal app feature. Seeing an area become busy does not require displaying the people in it.
Features such as friend location sharing depend on a person choosing to share. Read our approach to data and privacy ↗ for more context.