Industrial IoT, in the field.
addanode connects machines, sensors, meters and instruments — old or new — into one live picture you can act on. Below are representative case studies and the typical industrial IoT scenarios we deliver. Real problems, the approach we take, and the value at stake; we name results we can stand behind and keep client details confidential where asked.
Projects & deployments.
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A named, confirmed installation.
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A realistic illustration of our approach.
A real addanode product capability.
Smart-factory OEE on an ageing line
Turning a monthly OEE guess into live, reason-coded downtime — reading the machines as they are, without a new PLC.
Cold-chain & asset monitoring through load shedding
Wireless temperature, door and compressor monitoring on fridges and cold rooms — protecting stock and proving the chain.
MHSA-aligned safety monitoring on a mine
Collision prevention, person location and occupational hygiene on one platform — surface and underground.
Reliability & visibility at a large beverage bottling plant
Bringing Industrial IoT to an already-strong operation — quietly supporting a disciplined team chasing the next 1%.
The Smart Water Shop System (addan5w)
Turning a handheld TDS meter and a notepad into live sensing, predictive filter alerts and customer-facing trust.
Sensor-driven irrigation on a commercial farm
Moving from irrigating on a calendar to irrigating on data — saving water, energy and labour while protecting yield.
Recovering municipal non-revenue water
Turning 40–50%+ losses into a prioritised, zone-by-zone fix list — without metering every household first.
Bringing a high-risk wastewater works back to compliance
Catching upsets before they breach a licence — DO, pump and blower health and final-effluent quality.
Trade-effluent compliance and a verifiable effluent bill
Continuous pH, COD and flow at the sewer connection — stay inside the permit, and check a COD-load bill against your own data.
Preventing sewage pump-station overflows
Wet-well level, pump and power status and overflow detection — catch a stalled or load-shedding-stranded pump before raw sewage reaches the river.
Catchment-wide discharge oversight for a regulator
Independent, continuous telemetry from every discharger and key river reach — so a breach raises an alert the day it happens, not weeks later.
Drinking-water quality assurance for a stressed system
Continuous turbidity, chlorine and pH with breach alerts — catching unsafe water before it reaches the tap.
Ventilation-on-demand to cut a mine's power bill
Prove the air is safe everywhere — then stop paying to ventilate empty headings.
Predictive maintenance on a critical conveyor
Catching the bearing before it stops the shift — or starts a fire — with vibration, temperature and current.
Connecting a legacy, multi-vendor plant — without scarce skills
One live picture from machines of every age and brand — no rip-and-replace, no flown-in specialist.
Connecting a plant securely — without exposing the PLCs
Read-only, no exposed PLC ports, segmentation — get the data out without letting control in.
Typical industrial IoT scenarios we deliver.
The same platform and sensor range, applied to the problems South African operators actually have.
Manufacturing & OEE
Live OEE, reason-coded downtime and condition monitoring — even on old lines, without replacing the PLC.
See the case study →Mining safety & assets
MHSA collision prevention, person location, occupational hygiene, ventilation, tailings and asset health.
See the case study →Water & utilities
Non-revenue water, quality and DWS compliance, reservoirs and pump stations across the network.
See the case study →Cold chain & asset monitoring
Temperature, door and compressor monitoring on fridges, freezers and cold rooms — through load shedding.
See the case study →Energy & infrastructure
Pumps, motors, HVAC, substations and remote infrastructure — condition and consumption in one view.
See the case study →Fleet & fuel
Vehicle telemetry, fuel-theft detection and driver behaviour across logistics, mining and field fleets.
Fleet & fuel →One in-house platform, sensor to dashboard.
What lets us span scenarios this different is that we build both the hardware and the software in-house — so the addaNet platform bridges operational technology (OT) and IT and reads the equipment you already own:
Connects almost anything
PLCs, SCADA and controllers over Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, CAN bus and many more — plus a broad range of addanode sensors (temperature, vibration, current, level, flow, pressure, TDS, pH, gas, air quality, door/contact and more).
Edge to cloud, your choice
Real-time logic at the edge, aggregation in SA-region cloud or fully on-premise — with edge buffering so monitoring keeps working through load shedding and patchy links.
Integrates with your systems
Bi-directional links to ERP, MES and CMMS (SAP, Syspro, Sage and others), so data flows from the factory floor to the office in one picture.
From monitoring to intelligence
Dashboards and alerts first, then predictive maintenance, energy optimisation and process automation on the same data.
Read the Industrial IoT in South Africa guide, or browse all insights and the glossary.
Have a scenario like one of these?
Tell us the problem in plain terms — a line you can't see, a cold room you keep losing, a network leaking water. We'll be honest about what's worth doing and where to start.