An intelligent umbrella, comprising a base assembly, the base assembly having an outside surface contacting a ground surface, a support assembly, the support assembly connected to the base assembly, an expansion assembly, the expansion assembly connected to the support assembly and to expand and contract one or more arm support assemblies and arms; and an ultra-low energy (ULE) wireless transceiver, the ULE wireless transceiver to act as an ULE hub, to generate commands or instructions and to communicate the generated commands or instructions to another ULE-enabled device. The another ULE-enabled device may be a separate intelligent umbrella, and the commands or instructions to instruct the separate intelligent umbrella to move one or more mechanical assemblies of the separate intelligent umbrella.