This paper presents the design and development of LED intelligent lighting system by using ZigBee technology. In order to detect the variation of brightness, temperature, pedestrians and vehicles, sensor modules are added to the LED street lamp, and ZigBee modules are used to construct wireless network and data transmission. It realizes intellectualized reconstruction of traditional LED lamp system based on the purposes of automatic control and energy saving. At the same time, in order to solve the problems of misstatements and omission of the sensors, overload of the coordinator, some solutions are used to enhance the stability of the system, such as soft decision, node binding, point to point communication, and detection of the enter/drop from the wireless network. Experiment results show that the intelligent LED lighting system realized network construction, system automatic on/off according to environmental illumination, automatic/manual switching, ganged lighting control, and system management and status monitoring.