Patent ID: 7945338

Claim:
A human-machine interface (HMI) in an industrial automation environment, the HMI comprising: an HMI computer; a display electrically coupled with the HMI computer; and a controller wirelessly coupled with the HMI computer; wherein the controller comprises: at least one accelerometer configured to detect acceleration of the controller and output acceleration data; a processor coupled with the at least one accelerometer and configured to process the acceleration data into motion data related to motion of the controller and output the motion data; and a transmitter coupled with the processor and configured to wirelessly transmit the motion data related to the motion of the controller to the HMI computer; and wherein the HMI computer is configured to: receive industrial automation data; wirelessly receive the motion data from the controller; process the motion data into control data; and select a first set of industrial automation data for display by the display in response to the control data.