A ubiquitous society is also called a "computers everywhere society" and is a society where anyone can use computers anytime, anywhere. Tiny computers would be embedded everywhere in our living space -- not only in home appliances, but also in the walls and electric lights in houses, items in shops such as clothes and pill bottles, and food wrappers papers -- and these computers would communicate and link with each other in order to realize more convenient and higher quality life for us.
In order to realize a ubiquitous society, technical results of computers would not be enough. Computers that come into our lives will have a large impact on us, so it requires conducting various experiments and tests repeatedly before putting them into practical use. These are called feasibility study experiments. Making the information open to public and receiving cooperation from industrial, public, academic and private organizations, a number of feasibility study experiments have been conducted for computers embedded into "locations" and "physical objects" by the "Ubiquitous ID Center" for playing the central role in order to know what can and cannot be done, what needs improvement, etc.
In addition, technical development of computers, etc. is obviously important to realize a ubiquitous society. As enormous numbers of computers will be used, it is necessary to make enormous numbers of hardware and software items that operate these computers. One of the important things to be done to improve the development efficiency was to standardize hardware and define standard basic software (operating system). A project for standardization activities is the "T-Engine project". The organization that promotes the T-Engine project is the "T-Engine Forum". It is the world's largest organization that works towards the realization of a ubiquitous society with a number of corporate and organization members.

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