Samenvatting

The company, Tekt Industries, is developing two LED driver boards which can be connected to the network or by a USB connection. Each device connected to a local network has a unique IP address and a port number to where data can be sent. The user must remember the IP address and port number of a driver board to be able to send data to it. Remembering this information can be tedious.

The solution to the problem is to run a server between the user’s program and the driver boards. The main purpose of the server is to provide a level of abstraction. The user only needs to remember the IP address and port number of the server to send data to any driver boards connected to the network.

A communication protocol is set up through which all programs can interact with the server software. The communication protocol is a UDP based protocol because of the time sensitivity of application.

A total of seven test and sample programs are created to test the performance of the server. Each sender program sends LED color data.

An API library is written to create a simple environment which software developers can use without diving deeply into the communication protocol, socket setup and other complex processes.