US Patent 11313173 Smart electric shades system, and its method of operation

Smart electric shades system, and its method of operation. A smart electric shades (SES) device includes a window blind, and a motor able to open and close the window blind. The SES device includes a Wi-Fi transceiver able to receive an incoming Wi-Fi signal indicating a remote command to control another SES unit that is external to and separate from that SES device. The SES device also includes a non-Wi-Fi reduced-power wireless transceiver, to send to that other SES unit a non-Wi-Fi wireless communication signal, based on the incoming Wi-Fi command, indicating the remote command to control that other SES unit.