A touchless controller includes output pins corresponding to detected touchless gestures. The touchless controller may include a memory that stores a gesture table that associates gestures respectively with the output pins, a proximity sensor that detects the presence of a target in proximity thereto and generates a corresponding detection signal, a gesture recognition unit, and an output controller. The gesture recognition unit is configured to determine the gesture that the detection signal corresponds to. The output controller is configured to determine the output pin that the determined gesture corresponds to by referencing the gesture table stored in the memory. The output controller then controls the state of the output pin according to the determined gesture.