Greek tech SME building serious games, AR tools, and AI monitoring systems for urban health and nature-based solutions projects.
Sentio Labs is a Greek technology SME specializing in digital tools that make urban science accessible and actionable for citizens and policymakers. Their work centers on serious games, augmented reality applications, and AI-based monitoring systems deployed within large urban regeneration projects. In both their EU projects, they contribute the citizen engagement and digital interaction layer — translating complex urban planning concepts (nature-based solutions, blue-green infrastructure) into interfaces that drive measurable behavioral change. They also support evidence-based policy making by providing data collection and monitoring capabilities tied to real-world urban interventions.
EuPOLIS explicitly lists 'advanced ICT (Serious Games, Augmented Reality)' as a core keyword, suggesting Sentio Labs contributes interactive digital tools to engage citizens in urban planning processes.
HEART lists 'AI-based monitoring' as a keyword, indicating Sentio Labs delivers automated data pipelines or sensing/analytics platforms for tracking urban health outcomes.
HEART explicitly targets 'behavioural change' as an outcome, pointing to Sentio Labs' role in designing digital experiences that shift how citizens interact with green and blue urban infrastructure.
Both EuPOLIS and HEART frame outcomes around citizen health and wellbeing, with HEART specifically targeting 'assess the impact of blue-green interventions on urban health'.
EuPOLIS keywords include 'citizens observatories', suggesting Sentio Labs builds participatory platforms where residents contribute observations and data to urban planning processes.
HEART lists 'evidence-based policy making' as a keyword, indicating an expanding role in translating monitoring data into policy recommendations for city administrations.
Sentio Labs entered H2020 with a focus on structured planning frameworks and participatory digital tools — the EuPOLIS project in 2020 centered on goals-driven planning matrices, citizens observatories, and ICT engagement tools like serious games and AR. By 2021, with the HEART project, their focus had shifted toward measurable outcomes: validating health impacts in clinical and non-clinical settings, driving behavioral change, and deploying AI-based monitoring systems. The trend is a clear move from engagement-first (getting citizens to participate) toward outcomes-first (proving that participation and green interventions actually change behavior and health indicators). This shift suggests a maturing capability in impact measurement and scientific validation, not just tool building.
Sentio Labs is moving toward quantifiable impact — from building engagement tools to proving those tools change behavior and health outcomes — making them increasingly useful to health authorities and city administrations that need evidence, not just participation numbers.
Sentio Labs operates exclusively as a consortium participant, never as coordinator — consistent across both projects. Despite only 2 projects, they have connected with 37 unique partners across 15 countries, which indicates they join large, multi-partner consortia rather than small bilateral partnerships. This pattern suggests they are a specialist contributor brought in for a specific digital or ICT capability rather than a project architect; organizations seeking a technology execution partner rather than a strategic lead will find them a comfortable fit.
Sentio Labs has accumulated 37 unique consortium partners across 15 countries from just two projects, reflecting the large-scale, multi-city nature of the EuPOLIS and HEART consortia. Their network is broadly European with no evident geographic concentration beyond their Greek base.
Sentio Labs occupies a specific niche at the intersection of urban environmental science and digital citizen engagement — few SMEs combine serious games, augmented reality, and AI monitoring within the context of nature-based urban solutions. Their dual presence in both environment and health pillars of H2020 makes them genuinely cross-sectoral, which is rare for a two-person or small-team company. For consortium builders working on smart city, urban health, or green infrastructure projects who need a technology partner that can handle both the citizen-facing UX and the back-end monitoring layer, Sentio Labs offers a compact, specialized profile that larger engineering firms typically cannot replicate at their scale.
