The ‘Everyware’ module looks at the trend towards creating an internet of things, how through the embedding of computers, sensors and electronics in materials and objects systems can be created between them. The name Everyware combines ‘ware’ as in hardware or software and the word everywhere.

The term ‘Internet of Things’ was coined by Kevin Ashton who co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT which created a global standard RFID system.