A brushless direct current electric motor for a wiping system. The brushless direct current electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, a Hall effect sensor to detect control magnet angular position of the rotor, and a control unit to determine rotor angular positions in relation to the stator from the signals Hall effect sensor signals and to generate control signals to electromagnetic excitation coils of the rotor as a function of the determined angular position of the rotor. The control unit includes a clock configured to: estimate the angular position of the rotor at predetermined instants lying between two changes of state of the Hall effect sensor, determine values of the control voltages associated with the angular positions of the rotor estimated for the predetermined instants, and generate a substantially sinusoidal control signal from the determined voltage values.