Special features of radio control link for energy efficient LED light sources

The aim of the study is to reveal the special features of radio control link model in LR-WPAN under operating conditions of interference of the reflected and the line-of-sight component and to evaluate the radio link's range of positive light source control. The results of development and practical implementation of controlled spectrally tunable light emitting diode (LED) light sources with ISM- and ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.04)-based radio frequency transceivers are presented. A software application developed in LabVIEW simulation of a radio control link for light sources and used for evaluating the radio control link's range of various combinations of polarization of transmitting and receiving antennas has been discussed. It was established and experimentally verified that the received energy was able to be computed using the two-ray model: a line-of-sight ray and the reflected one. This approach is simpler as compared to cellular networks in which multiple reflections from various objects result in multi-path propagation without line-of-sight component.