In order to develop a comfortable environment of lighting and provide a sustainable energy saving plan,in recent years,LED lighting is widely used in home lighting,commercial lighting,public lighting,landscape lighting and other fields.It is transferring from a single traditional lighting management mode into the intelligent management.This article elaborated by sensing technology as a "weapon" to realize the intelligent management of LED lighting,and also take an important role from the working principle of intelligent LED lighting system,the hardware and software design scheme as embodied in the sensor of the intelligent LED lighting system.