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.
addanode sensors plus your existing instruments, meters and PLCs
Reads PLCs, runs logic, buffers locally through load shedding
Ingest, store, model and secure — SA-region cloud or on-premise
Live views, WhatsApp/email alerts, scheduled reports
ERP / MES via REST, OPC-UA and SQL
A real addaNet screen rather than a mock-up: a water-quality device on a demonstration line, with live values, three-hour trends and the raw record table — the same layout an OEE line, a borehole or a pump station gets, with its own parameters.
Read this as a chain in which any single stage can be the one that fails, and where the failure looks identical from the dashboard: a number that is late, missing or quietly wrong. That is why we take responsibility for the whole span rather than for a layer of it — the questions that matter on a live site are which stage introduced the delay, which stage lost the reading during an outage, and who is able to answer that at all. The chain below is also the right checklist to put in front of any supplier: ask who owns each stage, and what happens at each handover between them.
| 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, 4G 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 |
Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, direct I/O — we read what your equipment speaks.
Edge buffering and low-power devices keep data flowing through load shedding.
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.
Tell us your equipment, networks and constraints. Our engineers will walk you through exactly how addaNet would fit.