Entertainment Lighting

Control Network
Standardization to Support
VLC Services
Oscar Rene Pineda Laverde
Cristian Camilo Pinzon Cardenas
Mara Alejandra Zapata Mendoza
David Felipe Tosse M.

Introduction

Visible
light
communication (VLC) is
a data communications
medium which uses
visible light between
400 and 800 THz (780
375 nm). VLC is a
subset
of
optical
wireless
communications
technologies.

Video 1. [9] VLC- Visible Light Communication

HISTORY OF ENTERTAINMENT
LIGHTING CONTROL NETWORKS POST
WORLD WAR II
The earliest electric lighting control systems used manually
operated resistance or autotransformer dimmers.
After World War II allowed the dimmers to be remotely
controlled.
From the 1950s until the 1980s generally used analog
signals to control the dimmers, with each dimmer requiring
a dedicated control wire to carry its signal.
By the 1980s, a DC factor standard of 0 to 10 volts DC
positive, with the controller supplying the current, 3

HISTORY OF ENTERTAINMENT
LIGHTING CONTROL NETWORKS POST
WORLD WAR II
By the mid-1980s, it was possible to multiplex the control
signals and send them over control cables having only
three to five conductors.
In 1986 the United States Institute for Theatre Technology
(USITT) published two standards for multiplexed signal
control of stage and studio dimmers: AMX192 and
DMX512.
In 1998, USITT transferred the maintenance of the standard
to the Entertainment Services and Technology Association

LIGHTING CONTROL NETWORKS POST

WORLD WAR II

Tomado de IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks: Part
15.7: Short-Range Wireless Optical Communication Using Visible Light
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.unal.edu.co/stamp/stamp.jsp?
tp=&arnumber=6016195

Tomado de IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks: Part
15.7: Short-Range Wireless Optical Communication Using Visible Light
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.unal.edu.co/stamp/stamp.jsp?
tp=&arnumber=6016195

LIGHTING CONTROL STANDARDS OVERVIEW

Figure 2. Connector EIA-485-A /

RS485 [4]

Figure 4. IEE802.3 Ethernet / CSMA/CD [6]

Figure 3. DMX512 Digital Multiplexer
Controller [5]

ESTA is now PLASA

Figure 6. PLASA Logo [8]

Figure 5. ESTA Logo [7]

VLC project in PLASA (1)

Important facts:
- Used in entertainment sector applications
- At september of 2011 were presented schemes of modulation of
VLC on IEEE 802.15.7
What was the idea?
Using DMX512 links for the delivery of the VLC service data
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VLC project in PLASA (2)

DMX521
characteristics
- Data frame
Kbits/s

protocol
speed:

250

- Balance connection
- Up to 512 channels
- Up to 450 m
Figure 7. DMX512 protocol time diagram
[10]

- Does not correct errors

BSR E1.45 201x, Transport of IEEE 802

Data Frames over ANSI E1.11 (DMX512-A)
- Project

Figure 8. Initial
transmission[1]

purpose

Figure 9. Final
transmission[1]

format

for

for

IEEE

IEEE

802

data

802

data

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THE IMPACT AND CONCLUSION

Lighting control networks
could
become
an
excellent
solution,
because they could be
installed
for
energy
savings and automatic
controls, not only for VLC
services.
VLC requires a line of
sight
between
the
transmitter
devices
/
receiver

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References
[1] Sang-Kyu Lim, Karl G. Ruling, Insu Kim and Il Soon Jang, Entertainment Lighting Control Network Standardization to Support VLC
Services, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 13, pp. 4248, December 2013
[2] PLASA North America, American National Standard E1.11 2008 (R2013) Entertainment Technology USITT DMX512-A Asynchronous
Serial Digital Data Transmission Standard for Controlling Lighting Equipment and Accessories , ANSI Board of Standards Review, version
3.1, pages 36, March 2013.
[3] IEEE Standards Association, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks Part 15.7: Short-Range Wireless Optical
Communication Using Visible Light, IEEE Computer Society, pages 286, September 2011.
[4]EIA-485/RS485, Coelvi, http://www.coelvi.es/shop/es/conversores-bus/422-compacto-conversor-rs232-rs485.html
[5]DMX512, Xaris, http://e-xaris.net/iluminacion-y-efectos/167-controlador-dmx-para-24-luces-inteligentes.html
[6]IEE802.3 Ethernet / CSMA/CD, Computer networks, http://pharoah-net.blogspot.com.co/2011/12/logical-topology.html
[7]Grand stage, http://grandstage.com/links.html
[8]PLASA, http://www.plasa.org/.
[9] VLC Visible Light Communication https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXh36P8QGM4
[10] Eduardo Yescas Mendoza, Diseo e implementacin de un sistema de control para la iluminacin de espectculos basado en el protocolo
DMX512, introduccin a DMX512, Tesis de Maestra, Universidad Tecnolgica de la Mixteca, Huajapan de Len, Oaxaca, septiembre de 2009.

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QUESTIONS

Video 1. [9] VLC- Visible Light Communication

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