India, March 21 -- India's factory floors are no longer defined only by machines, throughput, and shift rosters. They are being rewired into data-rich environments where sensors, video feeds, enterprise systems, and worker safety signals converge into a single operational picture.

Praveen Arora, Vice President - IoT (Business Unit), Tata Communications, in this exclusive interaction with Voice&Data, explains how industrial IoT is moving from reactive alarms to proactive, pattern-led prevention, and why "people first" is the real starting point of Industry 4.0. He also shared insights on how frugal, subscription-based models can help MSMEs adopt digital workflows without hiring a new tech team, the edge-versus-cloud decisions, agentic AI'...