End-to-end Industrial IoT for South African sites — from sensor to dashboard.
addanode builds both the hardware and the software behind addaNet, our Industrial IoT platform for connecting sensors, instruments, PLCs and remote assets into live dashboards, alerts and reports. We help South African water, mining and manufacturing operators measure what matters, keep recording through load shedding, and start with the equipment they already own.
Water, mining or manufacturing — pick your route.
Three industries where we go deepest. Each route starts from a real operating problem and runs on the same addaNet platform.
Water & wastewater
For utilities, municipalities and plants with a licence or permit to answer to.
- Losing water you can’t locate — non-revenue water
- A DWS water-use licence to prove — discharge quality
- A trade-effluent bill you can’t check
- Pump stations that spill before anyone knows
Mining safety & operations
For mines working to the MHSA regulations, surface and underground.
- Specifying TMM collision prevention to MHSA 8.10
- Knowing who is underground — person location
- Dust, noise and gas exposure, monitored continuously
- Critical conveyors and pumps that fail without warning
Manufacturing
For plants that want real numbers from the lines they already run.
- OEE is a monthly guess, not a live number
- Old machines with no PLC to read from
- Unplanned downtime on critical assets
- Cold rooms and fridges through load shedding
Also on addaNet: Nurse call & staff safety · RFID asset tracking · Building management · Irrigation · Livestock · Fleet & fuel · All solutions →
You can't improve what you can't measure.
Data you can't see or trust
Machines, meters and sensors that don't talk to each other. Decisions made on gut feel and spreadsheets that are already out of date by the time you read them.
How addanode fixes it: addaNet pulls the sensors, instruments and PLCs you already run into one live platform — one dashboard, real numbers, real time.
Imported solutions priced for elsewhere
Off-the-shelf IIoT platforms are built for European factories and priced in euros — with licences and consultants that don't fit an African budget.
How addanode fixes it: We build the stack ourselves and price it for emerging markets — and it works with the equipment you already own.
Load shedding & patchy connectivity
Power cuts and weak signal on remote sites leave gaps in the data — and a cloud dashboard shows nothing while the gateway is offline. Monitoring here needs battery-backed gateways that buffer readings locally and send them when the link returns.
How addanode fixes it: Low-power devices, local buffering, and the right network per site — LoRaWAN or 4G.
Everything runs on addaNet.
addaNet is addanode's in-house Industrial IoT platform — the backbone that connects operational equipment into live data, alerts and decisions. We build both the hardware and the software in-house, so one local team is accountable from the field device to the dashboard.
1 · Sense
In-house sensors plus your existing instruments, meters and PLCs — read what you already own.
2 · Connect & buffer
Edge gateways over LoRaWAN, 4G or wired — buffering locally through load shedding.
3 · addaNet platform
Secure ingest, storage and analytics — SA-region cloud or on-premise, your data, your rules.
4 · Dashboards & alerts
Live dashboards, WhatsApp/email alerts, reports and integration into your ERP/MES.
Named clients, recognised work, real people.
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa
A completed project with CCBSA and water specialist Talbot on water-process reliability and visibility, named with client approval — with further CCBA projects in progress.
Read the project →Four 2026 awards finalist placements
Finalist in four categories across the Africa Tech Week Awards and the Nedbank Oliver Top Empowerment Awards.
See the awards →The team behind addaNet
Hardware, software, field engineering and supply chain in one Johannesburg team — the people you will deal with.
Meet the team →One team, accountable from field device to dashboard.
What we are
- A South African IoT solutions provider and Industrial IoT company that builds the IoT devices and sensors, the edge layer and the addaNet software.
- An end-to-end partner — sensor, connectivity, platform and outcome under one roof.
- Engineers who design for load shedding, remote sites, MHSA and DWS from day one.
What we're not
- Not a generic dashboard reseller bolting together someone else's parts.
- Not only a sensor supplier that leaves the integration to you.
- Not an imported platform priced in euros and built for a European factory.
Built for African industry.
Manufacturing
OEE, downtime tracking, energy and condition monitoring for production lines.
See solutions →Mining
MHSA-aligned safety monitoring, collision prevention, occupational hygiene and asset health.
See solutions →Agriculture
Automated irrigation, precision livestock and remote farm monitoring that survives the bundu.
See solutions →Water Utilities
Quality, flow and pressure monitoring, plus effluent and DWS compliance reporting.
See solutions →Municipalities & Smart City
Smart metering, water loss, energy and infrastructure monitoring for local government.
See solutions →Logistics & Fleet
Vehicle tracking, fuel management and asset telemetry across your fleet.
See solutions →Healthcare & Retirement Living
Nurse call with response evidence, staff duress and resident safety for hospitals and retirement villages.
See solutions →From audit to optimisation — one team, end to end.
Assess
Site & data audit. What's worth measuring.
Design
Sensors, network and platform architecture.
Deploy
Install hardware, gateways and connectivity.
Integrate
Connect existing sensors, instruments & PLCs.
Monitor
Live dashboards, alerts, condition monitoring.
Optimise
Analytics, OEE and continuous improvement.
The shortest answer to "why addanode?"
Hardware and software, both in-house. Most vendors do one or the other and integrate the rest. We build both — so the stack actually fits, and there's one team accountable end-to-end.
Affordable, frontier-market technology. Our mission is to bring leading-edge technology to emerging markets at a price that makes sense here — not a European licence model bolted onto an African budget.
Works with what you already own. addaNet is sensor-, instrument- and PLC-agnostic. We connect your existing equipment instead of asking you to rip and replace.
Engineered for local reality. Load shedding, remote sites, patchy signal, MHSA and DWS compliance — designed in from day one, not patched in later.
More about addanode →
Practical reading for industrial operators.
Why most vibration-based motor monitoring projects are doomed to fail
The failure modes nobody warns you about — and how to scope a project that actually pays back.
South Africa's IoT dilemma: why 4G may be the most practical choice
LoRaWAN vs NB-IoT vs 4G vs Sigfox — a practical decision guide for SA industrial sites.
Effluent monitoring and DWS compliance in South Africa
What the regulator expects, what to measure, and how to automate compliance reporting.
Ready to see your operation in real time?
Tell us what you run and what you're trying to improve. We'll come back inside two working days with a practical view — not a sales pitch.