The infrastructure that is being built into the city centre of Oulu in 2009-2011 lays the foundation for ubiquitous Oulu. The infrastructure consists of large public displays and different software and wireless networks.

The opportunities that the new infrastructure offers are being demonstrated with prototype services. Several small-scale demos have been created in the UBI Program. Their purpose is to illustrate and test the functionality of, for example, an individual technology, application sketch or a user interface solution. A part of the services are integrated into large-scale pilots that illustrate the true functionality of a ubiquitous city. The first pilot called UBI Pilot 2009 is organized in the summer of 2009 and it extends from June to August.

One the main themes of Ubiquitous Oulu is openness. The infrastructure is offered as an open horizontal resource for the use of the entire community, which hopefully will stimulate ideation and development of new services. In order to stimulate the birth of new services, the UBI Program also releases the software created in it according to the principle of open source code.