One platform, built end to end — sensor, edge, cloud and dashboard.
Because we engineer both the hardware and the software, addaNet isn't a bundle of third-party parts hoping to talk to each other. It's a single, coherent stack designed for industrial sites in Africa — and for the equipment, networks and power realities they actually run on.
Field device to dashboard — one stack, in-house.
Field devices
addanode sensors plus your existing instruments, meters and PLCs
Edge gateway
Reads PLCs, runs logic, buffers locally through load shedding
addaNet
Ingest, store, model and secure — SA-region cloud or on-premise
Dashboards & alerts
Live views, WhatsApp/email alerts, scheduled reports
Business systems
ERP / MES via REST, OPC-UA and SQL
From the signal on the machine to the number on the screen.
| Layer | What addanode provides |
|---|---|
| IoT devices & sensors | In-house IoT devices and sensors plus support for third-party sensors — vibration, flow, level, current, temperature, gas, RFID and more |
| Connectivity | LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, 4G, Sigfox or wired — selected per site for coverage and cost |
| Edge | Local gateways that read PLCs, run control logic and buffer through power and network outages |
| addaNet platform | Secure ingest, storage, modelling and analytics — SA-region cloud or on-premise |
| Dashboards & alerts | Live web dashboards, scheduled reports, and WhatsApp/email alerting — with open APIs that also feed Grafana and other dashboards for teams who prefer them |
| Integration & automation | REST and OPC-UA APIs, SQL export, and connectors to ERP/MES (SAP, Syspro, Sage) and existing industrial automation |
Protocol-agnostic
Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, direct I/O — we read what your equipment speaks.
Resilient by design
Edge buffering and low-power devices keep data flowing through load shedding.
Secure protocols
Modern IoT security protocols — TLS-encrypted transport, role-based access, audit logging and no exposed PLC ports. See industrial IoT security.
See it in action on the addaNet platform page, or explore what runs on it — water, mining, OEE, condition monitoring and environmental monitoring.
Want the technical detail?
Tell us your equipment, networks and constraints. Our engineers will walk you through exactly how addaNet would fit.