Indian homes are becoming smart. Home automation technology is not just confined to high net worth individuals, but is slowly becoming a part of the everyday life of the average Indian.

  Adaptive Instruments Corp. (www.accutechinstruments.com), a Hudson, Mass.-based supplier of tether-free wireless smart process instrumentation systems, has been acquired by SCADAgroup PTY (http://scadagroup.com), of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

  The Industrial Security Incident Database (ISID) is coming back to life.

  The deal to acquire the assets of MTL Open Systems Technology product lines is said to prove GE Fanuc’s commitment to the process industries.

  Using wireless sensor technologies in process automation is finally getting out of the labs and into the plants. There remains a reluctance to publicly come out of the closet about using it.