Intelligent Umbrella Including One or More Internet-of-Things (IoT) Enabled Devices

Abstract

An intelligent umbrella system, comprises one or more shading elements; a support assembly, coupled to the one or more shading elements, to provide support for the one or more shading elements; and a base assembly, coupled to the support assembly, to provide contact with a surface. The intelligent umbrella also includes one or more microphones to capture spoken or audio commands; one or more processors; one or more memory modules; and one or more wireless communication transceivers. The intelligent umbrella system includes computer-readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that are executed by the one or more processors to convert the captured audio commands into audio files; and perform voice recognition on the converted audio files to generate instructions or commands based, at least in part, on the converted audio files.

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         10 . An intelligent umbrella system, comprising:
 one or more shading elements;   a support assembly, coupled to the one or more shading elements, to provide support for the one or more shading elements;   a base assembly, coupled to the support assembly, to provide contact with a surface;   one or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the one or more IoT devices being positioned within the base assembly, the support assembly, or the one or more shading elements   one or more processors;   one or more memory devices;   one or more wireless communication transceivers;   wherein computer-readable instructions stored in the one or more memory devices are executable by the one or more processors to:   communicate with the one or more IoT devices to receive images and/or measurements from the one or more IoT devices.   
     
     
         11 . The intelligent umbrella of  claim 10 , wherein the one or more IoT devices comprises one or more imaging devices, the one or more imaging devices to capture video or images of an area around the intelligent umbrella. 
     
     
         12 . The intelligent umbrella of  claim 11 , wherein the computer-readable instructions executable by the one or more processors further to receive the captured video or images from the one or more imaging devices and communicate the captured video or images, via the one or more wireless communication transceivers, to an external computing devices for analysis. 
     
     
         13 . The intelligent umbrella of  claim 10 , wherein the one or more IoT devices comprise one or more environmental sensors, the one or more environmental sensors to capture sensor measurements of environmental conditions in an area surrounding the intelligent umbrella and to store the sensor measurements in the one or more memory devices. 
     
     
         14 . The intelligent umbrella of  claim 13 , the computer-readable instructions further being executable by the one or more processors to receive the sensor measurements and communicate the sensor measurements, via the one or more wireless communication transceivers, to an external computing device. 
     
     
         15 . The intelligent umbrella of  claim 14 , a portion of the computer-readable instructions comprising a smart home application programming interface (API), the smart home API being executable by the one or more processors to communicate, via the one or more wireless communication transceivers, to the external computing device, the external computing device comprising computer-readable instructions executable by one or more processors to run a smart home software application. 
     
     
         16 . The intelligent umbrella of  claim 10 , the one or more IoT devices to each comprise an Internet Protocol (IP) address in order to be located by other IoT-enabled devices. 
     
     
         17 . An intelligent umbrella system, comprising:
 one or more shading elements;   a support assembly, coupled to the one or more shading elements, to provide support for the one or more shading elements;   a base assembly, coupled to the support assembly, to provide contact with a surface;   one or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the one or more IoT devices being positioned within the base assembly, the support assembly, or the one or more shading elements;   one or more processors;   one or more memory devices;   one or more wireless communication transceivers;   wherein computer-readable instructions stored in the one or more memory devices are executed by the one or more processors to:   receive instructions or commands from one or more IoT-enabled devices located externally and separate from the intelligent umbrella, the one or more IoT-enabled devices located externally to request one or more components or assemblies of the intelligent umbrella to perform specific actions.   
     
     
         18 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 17 , the one or more IoT devices comprising one or more environmental sensors, the received instructions or commands to request the one or more environmental sensors within the intelligent umbrella to capture environmental measurements of an area surrounding the intelligent umbrella,
 the computer-readable instructions being further executable by the one or more processors to:   receive captured environmental measurements from the one or more environmental sensors, and communicate the received environmental sensor measurements to the external and separate IoT-enabled devices.   
     
     
         19 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 17 , the one or more IoT devices to comprise one or more imaging devices,
 the received instructions or commands to request the one or more imaging devices to capture images or videos of an area surrounding the intelligent umbrella,   the computer-readable instructions being further executable by the one or more processors to:   receive the captured images or videos from the one or more imaging devices, and communicate the received captured images or videos to the external and separate IoT-enabled devices.   
     
     
         20 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 17 , the one or more IoT devices to comprise an Internet Protocol (IP) address to allow the external and separate IoT-enabled devices to communicate with the one or more IoT devices. 
     
     
         21 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more IoT devices comprising one or more solar panels, the one or more solar panels to generate solar power generation statistics, the computer-readable instructions further being executable by the one or more processors to receive the solar power generation statistics and communicate the solar power generation statistics, via the one or more wireless communication transceivers, to an external computing device. 
     
     
         22 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more IoT devices comprising one or more solar panels, the one or more solar panels to generate solar panel status parameters, the computer-readable instructions further being executable by the one or more processors to receive the solar panel status parameters and communicate the solar panel status parameters, via the one or more wireless communication transceivers, to an external computing device. 
     
     
         23 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more IoT devices comprising one or more motor assemblies, the one or more motor assemblies to generate motor assembly status parameters, the computer-readable instructions further being executable by the one or more processors to receive the motor assembly status parameters and communicate the motor assembly status parameters, via the one or more communication transceivers, to an external computing device. 
     
     
         24 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more IoT devices comprising one or more motion sensors, the one or more motion sensors to generate motion sensor measurements, the computer-readable instructions further being executable by the one or more processors to receive the motion sensor measurements and communicate the motion sensor measurements to an IoT-enabled smart home software server. 
     
     
         25 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more wireless communication transceivers to receive one or more audio files from an external computing device, the one or more audio files to be communicated to one or more speaker assemblies for playback. 
     
     
         26 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more wireless communication transceivers to receive one or more software update files and identifiers indicating which components or assemblies to receive the one or more software update files, the computer-readable instructions executable by the one or more processors to communicate the one or more software update files to the components or assemblies identified to receive software updates. 
     
     
         27 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more wireless communication transceivers to receive one or more activation commands from a smart home server computing device, the computer-readable instructions executable by the one or more processors to communicate the activation commands to identified components or assemblies. 
     
     
         28 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more identified components or assemblies to comprise one or more speaker assemblies. 
     
     
         29 . The intelligent shading system of  claim 10 , the one or more identified components or assemblies to comprise one or more lighting assemblies.