|
|
Simon Newton
newtos01@csse.uwa.edu.au
Entry year: 2004
Enrolment status: checked and confirmed
Degree: BE(SE)
Degree status: complete semester 1, 2005
Project: Performance of the ArtNet Protocol Over Wireless Networks
Supervisor(s): Chris McDonald
Project status: complete semester 1, 2005
|
|
For the past twenty years, the majority of entertainment lighting systems have been controlled using a serial protocol known as DMX512.
Lighting technology has evolved considerably since DMX was first proposed in 1986 and the limitations of the protocol are now being realised.
Additionally, being limited to a niche market has meant that any related specialist equipment such as wireless links and storage devices are relatively expensive.
Recently, there has been a move towards developing protocols for the transmission of DMX over IP in order to overcome these limitations and to utilise the wide range of inexpensive hardware.
A number of these protocols exist and one in particular, Art-Net, is gaining multi-vendor support due to the decision by the designers to release the protocol specification into the public domain.
This seminar covers the development of libartnet (a POSIX implementation of the Art-Net protocol), how the limitations of Art-Net were resolved and the modification of existing off-the-shelf hardware in order to build a low cost wireless Art-Net node.
|
 Proposal
Dissertation
|
Last update: Wed Jul 27 10:44:33 2005
|
|
