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.
Every case below is labelled for transparency, so you always know what you're reading.
Turning a monthly OEE guess into live, reason-coded downtime — reading the machines as they are, without a new PLC.
Wireless temperature, door and compressor monitoring on fridges and cold rooms — protecting stock and proving the chain.
Collision prevention, person location and occupational hygiene on one platform — surface and underground.
Bringing Industrial IoT to an already-strong operation — quietly supporting a disciplined team chasing the next 1%.
Turning a handheld TDS meter and a notepad into live sensing, predictive filter alerts and customer-facing trust.
Moving from irrigating on a calendar to irrigating on data — saving water, energy and labour while protecting yield.
Turning 40–50%+ losses into a prioritised, zone-by-zone fix list — without metering every household first.
Catching upsets before they breach a licence — DO, pump and blower health and final-effluent quality.
Continuous turbidity, chlorine and pH with breach alerts — catching unsafe water before it reaches the tap.
Prove the air is safe everywhere — then stop paying to ventilate empty headings.
Catching the bearing before it stops the shift — or starts a fire — with vibration, temperature and current.
One live picture from machines of every age and brand — no rip-and-replace, no flown-in specialist.
Read-only, no exposed PLC ports, segmentation — get the data out without letting control in.
The same platform and sensor range, applied to the problems South African operators actually have.
Live OEE, reason-coded downtime and condition monitoring — even on old lines, without replacing the PLC.
See the case study →MHSA collision prevention, person location, occupational hygiene, ventilation, tailings and asset health.
See the case study →Non-revenue water, quality and DWS compliance, reservoirs and pump stations across the network.
See the case study →Temperature, door and compressor monitoring on fridges, freezers and cold rooms — through load shedding.
See the case study →Pumps, motors, HVAC, substations and remote infrastructure — condition and consumption in one view.
See the case study →Vehicle telemetry, fuel-theft detection and driver behaviour across logistics, mining and field fleets.
Fleet & fuel →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:
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.