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In ubiquitous computing environments like smart home, residents can conveniently enjoy
various home entertainments, such as watching TV, listening music, etc, through invisible and
virtual interactions between residents and the home accomplished by ubiquitous computing.
This paper designs a Ubiquitous Multimedia Information Delivering Service (U-MIDS) for
smart home, U-MIDS can automatically deliver multimedia information, such as MP3 music,
Internet radios, (Text-to-Speech) spoken online news, and personal spoken messages, to the
residents according to their positions and behaviors in a smart home. Basically, the U-MIDS
consists of RFID modules, embedded network media players and a U-MIDS gateway. RFID
modules are used to identify the identities of home residents and which room they locate. An
embedded network media player is a device broadcasting multimedia information to home
residents. The U-MIDS gateway can control these network media players to play desirable
spoken information, music, etc. Besides, we also integrate semantic concepts and inference
rules into the U-MIDS hoping home smarter. That is, the gateway of U-MIDS can
automatically provide proper multimedia services for its residents according to residents’
preferences, locations, situations, etc. Through our proposed U-MIDS, the residents can be
freely and easily gather the ubiquitous multimedia information upon their locations,
preferences, and home intelligence all the time.