Your customers can't see clean water. ADDAN5W shows them.

ADDAN5W is the smart water shop system from addanode: continuous sensing on your purification line — TDS, flow, pressure, temperature — with a phone dashboard for you, predictive filter and leak alerts before problems cost money, and a wall display that shows customers the water quality right now. For a water shop, trust is the product. This is trust, made provable.

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What ADDAN5W does

From a notepad and a hopeful guess to a live picture.

Continuous quality monitoring

TDS, flow, pressure and temperature measured all day, every day — not one handheld reading each morning. Drift shows up as a trend hours or days before it becomes a failed test or a bad-tasting refill.

Predictive filter replacement

The system watches what your filters and membranes are actually doing and flags when a change is due — ending both the wasteful too-early swaps and the dangerous too-late ones.

Leak & anomaly alerts

A hidden leak under the storage tank, a pressure drop, a reading out of range — you get the alert on your phone in minutes, not a surprise at month-end.

Everything on your phone

Every sensor, every trend, from anywhere. Run one shop from the counter or five shops from the couch — same dashboard, on the addaNet platform.

Customer-facing quality display

A wall screen shows live water quality to everyone who walks in. Your competitors claim their water is clean; your shop proves it, continuously — and customers remember which is which.

Why now

Regulators are testing. Customers are reviewing. Blind spots are expensive.

Our research into 22 water-retail pain clusters found a consistent pattern: authorities stepping up inspections and shutting down refill stations that fail quality tests; hygiene steps skipped under cost pressure; and customers detecting quality drift at the tap — then telling the internet — long before the owner's next lab test. The common thread is detection latency: the shop that measures continuously acts first; the shop that measures once a day finds out last.

Monitoring supports compliance — it doesn't replace it. Your municipal Certificate of Acceptability, lab testing against SANS 241 and hygiene practice remain yours to run. What ADDAN5W changes is that you see problems while they're still cheap, and walk into every inspection knowing what the sample will say.

Frequently asked

ADDAN5W questions.

Thinking of opening a shop instead? Start with our research on why water shops fail quality tests.

One that measures continuously, alerts early and shows the customer. For a refill station that means live TDS, flow, pressure and temperature on the purification line, predictive filter alerts, leak warnings, and a customer-facing display — which is exactly what ADDAN5W packages, on the same industrial platform addanode uses for municipal water networks.

Yes — ADDAN5W is monitoring, not a replacement purification plant. The sensors fit onto the RO/purification chain you already run, whatever brand built it, and the system starts learning your line's normal behaviour from day one.

It helps you stop being surprised by them. Lab tests against SANS 241 remain the legal yardstick, but continuous TDS and equipment monitoring means drift is caught and fixed between tests — so the sample the inspector takes is one you already knew would pass. Shops that fail usually failed quietly for weeks first; the point is to see those weeks.

It's scoped to your shop — sensor count and display options vary — and runs as an affordable monthly subscription covering hardware, connectivity, dashboard and alerts, in line with how all addanode monitoring works. Talk to the Water Team for a quote; it's a short conversation, not a sales campaign.

Yes. Each site's sensors report into the same dashboard, so an owner with several stations — or a franchise — sees every site's quality, filter status and alerts in one place. The platform underneath runs municipal networks; a handful of shops is comfortable territory.

What is in the ADDAN5W system

ADDAN5W dashboard on the addaNet platform showing a purification line: total flow, TDS 28 ppm, pressure and temperature with trends and the latest readings — What the owner sees: the ADDAN5W dashboard for a demonstration purification line at our Douglasdale office — TDS, flow, pressure and temperature, live and trended.

Component	Function in the shop
Inline TDS and temperature probe	Continuous product-water quality on the purification line; drift alerts between SANS 241 lab tests
Flow meter	Litres produced and sold; filter and membrane life prediction from throughput
Pressure sensors	RO feed and permeate pressure; membrane fouling and leak warnings
Leak and level sensing	Storage tank level and under-tank leak alert
Customer display	Live quality reading visible at the counter
Phone dashboard and alerts	Every sensor and trend for one shop or a franchise, on the addaNet platform
Commercial model	Monthly subscription covering hardware, connectivity, dashboard and alerts; scoped per shop

Planning or costing a shop? Read water purification machine prices in South Africa, how to start a water purification business and why water shops fail quality tests.

Run your water shop on proof, not hope.

Tell us about your shop and your line. We'll scope ADDAN5W for it — sensors, dashboard, alerts and the customer display — and you'll know your water the way your customers wish you did.

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