Patent ID: 8471571

Claim:
A method for selecting at least one piece of equipment to be electronically controlled from a first predefined group of home automation equipment and at least one additional predefined group of home automation equipment, by way of activation of a first number of capacitive sensors that belong to a set of capacitive sensors that are disposed next to one another on a control unit, and wherein the capacitive sensors are electronically connected by wire or wireless signals to the equipment of the first predefined group and to the equipment in the at least one additional predefined group, the method of selection including the steps of: A. selecting at least one piece of equipment from the first predefined group of equipment by activating only an individual one of the first number of capacitive sensors which is electronically connected to the at least one piece of equipment of the first predefined group; and B. selecting at least one piece of equipment from the at least one additional predefined group of equipment by activating a plurality of the first number of capacitive sensors in different predetermined sequences and wherein at least two of the activated capacitive sensors of the first number are spaced from one another by at least one intermediate capacitive sensor of the first number.