Ubiquitous multimedia information delivering service for smart home

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 their positions and behaviors in a smart home. Basically, U-MIDS consists of Embedded Network Media Players and U-MIDS gateway. Network Media Players can play MP3 files through home network and U-MIDS gateway can control these media players to play desirable spoken information or music according to residents' preferences, locations and situations. Through our proposed U-MIDS, the residents can be free and relaxing to gather the ubiquitous multimedia information around their home all the time.