ABSTRACT The increasing availability of sophisticated mobile appliances, also supporting cost-effective proximity communication technologies, boosts the development of smart environments. This can change the user experience, also enabling new interaction models. However, to cope with additional complexities and to enhance the set of available services, a proper software framework is needed. Specific requirements are: i) the delivery of personalized contents; ii) the easy management and adaptation of multimedia objects to precise classes of devices; iii) the support of network intensive applications, e.g., those using video streaming. In this perspective, the paper presents a prototypal software framework to bring such features in museums. The main contributions concern the methodologies for creating and delivering ad-hoc contents in a simple and scalable way, as well as the integration of standard solutions to maintain the deployment simple and competitive. Besides, owing to the core role of the network, a preliminary performance evaluation of the data delivery subsystem is presented.
