Various automation units for a premises include a sensor, at least two resolvers, and a plurality of models of the data of the sensor. Each resolver has its associated models which define how the resolver uses the data of the sensor. The various resolvers are an alarm resolver, a presence resolver, a climate resolver and a voice resolver. Other automation units are cognitive or proactive, and include a data base to store at least recorded events per controlled equipment, an event analyzer to analyze recorded events to find patterns of activation of the equipment, and either a cognitive module to modify the associated scenario of a piece of equipment if the patterns do not match the scenario or a proactive module to create a new scenario for a piece of equipment based on the analysis.