Characteristics showing the ubiquity of software projects

An “everyware world” as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere with the environment. Radio frequency and data identification communicates their position and other location information constantly in a vast file network. Everyday objects become searchable if they are part of interconnected World Wide Web. Looking into last three decades, the 80s was the decade of the microprocessors symbolized by the personal computer when computers were built, the 90s was the decade of networks and communication symbolized by the World Wide Web where computers were connected together. Finally in this decade, it is computer that is present everywhere, connected to almost everything and embedded in every little thing. It is known that the ubiquitous computing arrived when we realized invisibility of computers. Despite of many upgradations in software engineering field, the emerging of ubiquitous software still represents a grand challenge. So basically this paper intimates about the essential characteristics of ubiquitous computing in some of the ubiquitous software projects. And these characteristics are further organized, formulated and represented in such a way that they reveal the ubiquity of projects by estimating their presence or absence.