Analysis of IP-based control networks for LED lighting fixture communication

The control of an LED lighting fixture using networks converges recently with the lighting control system using the IP (Internet Protocol) networks. IP-based LED lighting control is becoming a more common feature in not only simple dimming mechanism but also media facade lighting systems with Kinetic ART. In this paper, we present and analyze the four methods based on IP networks for controlling an LED lighting fixture. We show the simulation results as that the delay decreases over 32% less than the transmission of unicast event by event compared with the multicast-multiplexing transmission method. The large-scale control networks having more than 10,000 channels do not influence a delay-throughput when the number of channels is increased.