Axis Labs

About the offering

AXIS Gear is a smart home device to motorize and automate existing window shades. Unlike traditional solutions (tubular motors) that come pre-installed with your window shades, Gear is a retrofit that is externally mounted on the window frame and works with your shades' existing chains or cords to automate its control. Installation is completed in minutes. Gear is compatible with most window shades that use a continuous cord loop or beaded chain, including roller shades, roman shades, vertical blinds, curtains, and sheers. Gear is controllable with a smartphone via Bluetooth and integrates with the larger IoT smart home ecosystem. We are currently integrated with Samsung SmartThings, which in turn integrates with a variety of other smart home products, including Google Home and Amazon Alexa. We anticipate that Control4 integration will be available in Q1-2018. With Gear, you are able to control one shade or groups of shades, as well as set schedules. For example, you can have your shades open when the sun rises as a natural alarm clock. You or your guests can still control your shades directly, however, on-the-device itself via its beautiful capacitive touch interface. By integrating with the wider smart home ecosystem, Gear is designed to conveniently optimize for energy savings or occupant comfort. Powered by an external battery-pack that contains 12 AA batteries and a solar panel that continuously recharges an internal LiPo battery, Gear is capable of lifting shades regardless of size or weight. Alternatively, consumers can plug Gear into their power outlets using an adapter. Our technology and suite of features is protected by two utility patents and one design patent (two of which have been fully issued/granted, and one pending). As a consumer device that is purchased independent of the actual window shades, Gear bypasses traditional intermediaries in distribution, and as a result, is able is able to retail for less than half the cost of competing tubular motors.

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