computer software for planning special events, meetings, training sessions, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions; computer software for laying out room and stage arrangements for special events, meetings, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions, and for generating virtual images of layouts; computer software for laying out lighting, media content, and special effects and generating virtual static and dynamic audio/visual depictions of layouts for special events, meetings, training sessions, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions; computer software for automating lighting, special effects and the display of media content at special events, meetings, training sessions, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions; computer software for communicating with sensing devices, namely, RFID sensors, SONAR devices, RADAR devices, infrared cameras, microphones, stereoscopic cameras, light sensors and pressure sensors, and controlling lights, motors, set pieces, cameras, projectors, monitors, sensing devices, pyrotechnics and media servers according to user selected parameters; hardware for automating lighting, special effects and the display of media content at special events, meetings, training sessions, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions, namely, automation controllers for interfacing with RFID sensors, SONAR devices, RADAR devices, infrared cameras, microphones, stereoscopic cameras, light sensors, pressure sensors and controllers for lights, motors, set pieces, cameras, projectors, sensing devices, pyrotechnics and media servers; systems comprising hardware and software, the hardware comprising portable LED beacons and sensors adapted to perceive the light emitted by the beacons, for tracking three dimensional position, pitch, roll and yaw, of persons and objects and software for tracking three dimensional position, pitch, roll and yaw, of persons and objects; systems comprising hardware and software, the hardware comprising portable LED beacons and sensors adapted to perceive the light emitted by the beacons, for tracking three dimensional position, pitch, roll and yaw, of persons and objects, for facilitation of production automation in the entertainment industry and software for tracking three dimensional position, pitch, roll and yaw, or persons and objects, for facilitation of production automation in the entertainment industry