A convolutional neural network (CNN) was designed and built on an embedded building lighting control system to determine whether the application of CNN could increase the accuracy of image recognition and reduce energy consumption. Currently, lighting control systems rely mainly on information technology, with sensors to detect people’s existence or absence in an environment. However, due to the deviation of this perception, the accuracy of image detection is not high. In order to validate the effectiveness of the new system based on CNN, an experiment was designed and operated. The importance of the research lies in the fact that high image detection would bring in less energy consumption. The result of the experiment indicated that, when comparing the actual position with the positioning position, the difference was between 0.01 to 0.20 m, indicating that the image recognition accuracy of the CNN-based embedded control system was very high. Moreover, comparing the luminous flux of the designed system with natural light and the designed system without natural light with the system without intelligent control, the energy savings is about 40%.