LED in remote control lighting applications

LEDs offer greater design flexibility for dimming and changing lighting colors, making them ideal for architectural lighting, interior lighting and dimming, energy efficient street lighting and outdoor lighting applications where remote control can be controlled. These applications can bring great value to users, but in order to succeed in the market, the cost of upgrading lighting to LED technology must be kept to a minimum. There is no doubt that a solution that reuses existing infrastructure is inevitably the most popular option.

In remotely controlled LED lighting applications, the infrastructure with the highest product upgrade cost is to control LED lighting wiring. Fortunately, there are two techniques that can be used to eliminate this expensive upgrade: LED lights can be controlled via wireless link or by PLC technology through existing power lines.

PLC technology can support long-distance communication, but when the circuit breaker or transformer of the AC line does not allow free flow of data, it may cause some problems. Although there is no such problem in wireless communication, the communication frequency is limited to the license-free band, and the wireless communication distance is also limited. In some cases, the two technologies can be combined to get the best solution: power line communication without transformer blocking and cross-transformer design with wireless connectivity.

The main design requirements for remote control of LED lighting include:

1. Communication range. Depending on the specific application, for residential indoor applications, a communication range of around 30m can meet the requirements, and street lights require several kilometers of communication range.

2, low power consumption. An important selling point for LEDs is energy efficiency. Turn off the illumination, and only ensure that the LED lamp has the lowest power consumption when the communication line remains active. This is critical for design.

3. Communication rate. Some lighting applications require only a low communication rate (several kbps) to meet dimming control and fault status reading requirements. However, architectural lighting sometimes requires very high data rates, even up to 100 kbps. Wall washers are a typical example of this type of application. Multiple lights are controlled by a single bus and the color of the lights needs to be constantly changed.

4. Low cost. Most lighting applications have similar requirements.

Typical wireless control lighting system block diagram
Typical wireless control lighting system block diagram

Typical PLC control lighting system block diagram
Typical PLC control lighting system block diagram


The remote control lighting system typically includes a microcontroller that can be a discrete unit or integrated inside another IC. In most cases, a basic microcontroller is sufficient, unless the system uses complex communication protocols and complex stacks (such as ZigBee?). The controller is responsible for handling communication protocol decoding, LED driver dimming signals, reading fault conditions, etc., and is used to control the lighting effects of the lights (eg theater dimming).

For wireless applications in lighting applications, Maxim's MAX1473 receiver and MAX1472 transmitter are available. These products operate in the 300MHz to 450MHz license-free band and can communicate from 30m to 50m in indoor environments. The MAXQ610 microcontroller offers all of these essential features at a very low cost.

For PLC applications, Maxim's solutions include the MAX2991 analog front end (AFE) and the MAX2990 baseband processor. These devices form a complete power line transmit/receive chipset that can transmit data over a 10km power line at data rates up to 100kbps. This transmission distance makes it ideal for street lighting systems. The MAX2990 integrates a microcontroller with a PWM output to control the PWM dimming input of the LED driver . This feature eliminates the need for other circuits that produce dimming signals.


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