Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing clos­er to in­tro­duc­ing a pol­i­cy that will al­low com­mu­ni­ties to ap­ply for ‘gat­ed’ sta­tus as a mea­sure to pro­tect them­selves from crime.

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple ...