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Everyware Computing · Software engineering & applied R&D

Engineering for systemsthat operate in public.

We run our own research portfolio and we build production systems for clients in five industries where being wrong is expensive. The research comes out of doctoral work on open display networks, carried out inside a European FP7 project. It is now running code, not a paper.

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Founded in Iași
2022
Founded in Iași
Divisions
2
Divisions
Industries
5
Industries
Indexed publications
11
Indexed publications

Two divisions, one discipline

Research feeds the client work; the client work funds the research.

The loop is not a metaphor. Enterprise engagements are where we meet constraints research never generates on its own — procurement cycles, data residency rules, systems that cannot be switched off. Our own R&D is where we build the things clients will need before there is a budget line for them. Between the two sits the part most companies skip: moving a validated idea out of lab conditions into an environment with real users, real budgets and real accountability.

  1. Research & Development

    Grounded in doctoral research on open display networks inside the EU FP7 PD-Net project. Displify reached the field first — it isn't the whole of it.

  2. Projects / Enterprise

    Fifteen years of senior solution architecture across national public services, regulated healthcare and cross-border enterprise groups.

Five industries

Where being wrong is expensive.

R&D register

What the research has produced.

  1. Displify

    In the field

    An application runtime for physical displays. Multiple independent web apps share one screen simultaneously, each with its own data and logic, coordinated by the player rather than by a playlist — so a panel can react to what changed beside it without the two apps knowing anything about each other. Validated in the field: eight orchestrated screens for 500+ participants at the DIZ 4.0 conference in Iași, March 2026.

  2. Open Display Networks — the research line

    Foundational

    The research the company is built on: how public displays stop being broadcast surfaces and become open, programmable infrastructure that third parties can build for. Eleven indexed publications, an FP7 project, and an application execution model that is now the core of Displify.

  3. Heritage interaction models

    In preparation

    Applying the open display model to cultural venues: multilingual storytelling, grounded AI access to a venue's own material, and content architectures that survive longer than the exhibition that funded them. First heritage pilot in preparation.

Web applicationsThird-party appsReal-time dataMulti-application runtimeWayfindingHealth educationPublic informationCulturalContext: place, time, audience

Provenance

The research we still run on

Open Display Networks

Open Display Networks propose that digital displays in public space can work as an open communications medium — the way radio, television and the web did before them — where applications, services and content from multiple providers coexist on shared infrastructure instead of competing for one vendor's playlist.

The European research programme that established this framing, FP7 PD-Net (Grant Agreement 244011, 2010–2013), explicitly named culture, public space and civic information as priority domains. It left behind an active international community: the PerDis symposium series, opendisplays.net, and a substantial body of doctoral work on the subject.

Our contribution

Our founder's doctoral work at the University of Minho addressed the developer's side of the problem: an application execution model that lets third parties build for displays the way they build for the web — without coordinating with each other, and without asking the display owner for permission first. Eleven indexed publications across IEEE Computer, the Journal of Universal Computer Science, IJCSSE and the PerDis series.

Academic link

Academic advisory from the University of Coimbra (CISUC/DEI), through a PhD specialist in open display networks and a co-author on PD-Net research.

From research to a running system

The architecture that carries this forward is documented and versioned, not improvised. Places, Displays, Screens, Zones and application pools are described by explicit schemas. A documented message protocol governs how the runtime and its applications communicate. Activation rules make behaviour deterministic: at any moment exactly one application is visible per zone, chosen by explicit priority, with an explicit fallback and an explicit tie-breaker. The player never enters an undefined state.

Five principles hold it together

  1. The place is the unit of experience
  2. Applications do not know each other
  3. Orchestration is context-aware by design
  4. Behaviour is deterministic
  5. Contracts are forward-compatible
Laboratory validationRelevant environmentOperational pilotLower TRLRising TRLHigher TRLResearch · partners · pilot environments

In short

Consultancy without research becomes staff augmentation. Research without consultancy becomes a demo that never meets an operating budget.

European innovation ecosystem

Connected to a European innovation ecosystem

This ecosystem gives our R&D work a practical pathway from idea to validation: access to expertise, innovation services, potential pilot environments, cross-border partners and European programmes.

  • Participant

    Digital Innovation Zone (DIZ / EDIH)

    Digital Innovation Zone is the European Digital Innovation Hub serving North-East Romania. We engage with it for technology-maturity assessment, pilot preparation and access to European innovation networks. Our first real-world deployment ran inside this ecosystem: eight orchestrated screens at the DIZ 4.0 conference — Artificial Intelligence. Human Perspective — for an audience of over 500.

  • Beneficiary

    SustainX

    SustainX supports innovative European SMEs working in sustainability, digital innovation and interregional collaboration. Everyware Computing was selected among its SME beneficiaries. The programme opens a pathway toward cross-border partnerships and the EU Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) ecosystem.

  • Beneficiary

    SAge-Hub

    SAge-Hub is an SME programme for innovative companies in Smart Ageing and Digital Health. We are a beneficiary, using it for skills development, international testing and investment readiness. Displify's healthcare direction is the work it applies to — context-aware communication in clinical environments.

  • VInnovate

    VInnovate is a technology-maturation pathway. Everyware is using it to structure the next maturation stage for Displify, focused on validation in relevant environments and progression along the Technology Readiness Level scale — moving applied research beyond laboratory validation and into operational pilot settings.

  • Innovation Leader

    CR.EU.IN. HERITAGE

    CR.EU.IN. HERITAGE connects technology providers with European cultural-heritage organisations. Everyware Computing has been selected within its ecosystem as an Innovation Leader, positioning the company to support SMEs and heritage institutions with digital innovation expertise.

Programmes are not the goal. They are how a small European company funds the distance between research that is finished and technology that is deployable.

The Everyware Way

How we work

Handover
We hand over systems your own team can run — documentation, observability and operational ownership are part of the delivery, not a phase we quote separately. If you need us in year three, it should be because you want us there.
Candour
We say what a system cannot do before we say what it can. An estimate that survives contact with procurement is worth more than one that wins the meeting.
Horizon
We design for the state of the system in year five, not the demo in week six. That is the difference between architecture and assembly.
Proof
Claims are demonstrable or they are not made. Where something is in preparation, we say so — including on this site.
Provenance
Everything we recommend has a source we can name — a project, a paper, or a system we ran ourselves.

Who runs this

About Everyware Computing

Founder

Constantin Taivan, PhD — fifteen years as a senior solutions architect across enterprise, public-sector and healthcare programmes in Romania, Portugal and Germany. PhD in Computer Science, University of Minho, in pervasive computing and open display networks, carried out inside the FP7 PD-Net project. Eleven indexed publications.

Advisory & clinical input

Academic advisory from the University of Coimbra (CISUC/DEI). Our healthcare work includes a practising general medicine doctor on the team, which means clinical workflow is a design input rather than an assumption.

Sovereignty

All intellectual property — source code, application catalogue, brand and strategic decision-making — is owned by an EU-established company. Services run on EU cloud regions; AI capabilities use EU-region services. Aligned with the GDPR and the EU Data Act.