A method for managing the operation of an installation comprising a plurality of visual or thermal comfort or security elements, such as actuators of movable equipment or of aeraulic systems of a building, or such as control points, comprising the steps consisting in: - providing, at least for part of the visual or thermal comfort or security elements of the installation, at least one information relating to a spatial location of said visual or thermal comfort or security elements within the building, - providing at least one control and/or monitoring information relating to at least one visual or thermal comfort or security element, such that a control order for changing the state of an actuator, - establishing, for at least one visual or thermal comfort or security element of the installation, from the at least one information relating to the spatial location and from the at least one control and/or monitoring information, an information on the probability of demand of said visual or thermal comfort or security element by a user, - transmitting the established demand probability information or a control order determined according to said demand probability information to said at least one visual or thermal comfort or security element, - adapting the operation of said at least one visual or thermal comfort or security element, the adaptation of the operation of said at least one element consisting, on reception of the demand probability information or of the control order determined according to said demand probability information, in selecting a first operating mode in which said at least one element is adapted to be used by an individual or a second operating mode in which said at least one element requires a lower energy consumption in comparison with the first operating mode. - providing, at least for part of the visual or thermal comfort or security elements of the installation, at least one information relating to a spatial location of said visual or thermal comfort or security elements within the building, - providing at least one control and/or monitoring information relating to at least one visual or thermal comfort or security element, such that a control order for changing the state of an actuator, - establishing, for at least one visual or thermal comfort or security element of the installation, from the at least one information relating to the spatial location and from the at least one control and/or monitoring information, an information on the probability of demand of said visual or thermal comfort or security element by a user, - transmitting the established demand probability information or a control order determined according to said demand probability information to said at least one visual or thermal comfort or security element, - adapting the operation of said at least one visual or thermal comfort or security element, the adaptation of the operation of said at least one element consisting, on reception of the demand probability information or of the control order determined according to said demand probability information, in selecting a first operating mode in which said at least one element is adapted to be used by an individual or a second operating mode in which said at least one element requires a lower energy consumption in comparison with the first operating mode.