Water management and monitoring in South Africa — water you can't measure is water you can't manage, or account for.

Whether you're a utility chasing non-revenue water, a municipality reporting to the regulator, a mine managing process and discharge water, or a factory monitoring effluent, the questions are the same: how much, what quality, and can you prove it? addanode monitors flow, pressure, level and quality across your network in real time, finds the water you're losing, and automates the compliance reporting DWS and your auditors expect — on infrastructure built for South African power and connectivity.

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Who we do this for

One platform, four water problems.

Utilities & municipalities

Cut non-revenue water, protect billing revenue, and run reticulation on live data instead of monthly meter reads. South African municipalities lose a large share of supply to leaks, theft and faulty meters — visibility is the first step to recovering it.

Non-revenue water guide →

Mining & heavy industry

Monitor process water, dewatering, tailings return and discharge — and prove your discharge quality against your water-use licence, continuously, without manual sampling rounds.

DWS compliance guide →

Factories & processors

Track intake, process and effluent quality, catch a breach before it becomes a reportable incident, and turn compliance into a dashboard and an export rather than a monthly scramble.

See a water case study →

Remote & off-grid sites

Boreholes, reservoirs, river gauges and pump stations far from power and signal — monitored on solar and low-power radio, buffering through load shedding so you stop driving out to check.

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What we monitor

Quantity, quality and compliance — on one platform.

Quantity, flow & dam levels

Bulk and zone flow, dam levels, reservoir and tank levels, pressure zones and pump status — the basis for balancing the network, managing abstraction and finding losses.

Water quality & safety

Water sensors for pH, turbidity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, COD, TDS and temperature — protecting water safety and catching water pollution across potable, process and effluent water. See water sensors explained.

Compliance & reporting

Continuous logging and automated reports aligned to DWS effluent and water-use licence conditions — defensible, exportable, audit-ready.

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Non-revenue water

District metering areas (DMAs), minimum-night-flow analysis and consumption reconciliation to localise where water — and revenue — is disappearing.

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Leak & burst alerts

Sudden flow spikes or pressure drops become an alert in hours, not a problem found weeks later on a flooded road.

Remote & off-grid

Solar-powered, low-power sensing over LoRaWAN / 4G with edge buffering — so distance and load shedding aren't barriers.

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Sewer network & pump stations

Wet-well levels, pump and power status and sewer-overflow detection — catch a blocked or load-shedding-stalled pump before raw sewage reaches the river.

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Trade effluent to sewer

Connection-point pH, COD, temperature and flow for factories under a municipal trade-effluent permit — stay in limit, and verify a COD-load-based bill.

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Regulatory & catchment oversight

For regulators, CMAs and metros — continuous, independent telemetry from every discharger and key river reach, with exception alerts and public dashboards.

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Where it pays back

The water projects we're asked for most.

Recover non-revenue water

Zone the network, rank DMAs by night flow, fix the worst-leaking zone first, then prove the recovery — turning invisible losses into a prioritised work list.

How smart metering cuts losses →

Automate DWS compliance

Log every licence parameter continuously and generate the reports the regulator expects, with alerts before a parameter drifts out of range.

Effluent & DWS compliance →

Assure water quality

Continuous quality sensing with predictive maintenance of filters and instant breach alerts — proven trust, powered by data.

Smart Water Shop case study →

Monitor remote water assets

Boreholes, reservoirs and pump stations that report their own level, flow and status — off-grid on solar, continuous through outages.

Solar-powered monitoring →

Monitor a water treatment plant

Continuous monitoring of the treatment process, water treatment chemicals (dosing and stock), COD and final-effluent quality — for water and waste water treatment plants alike.

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Track dam & reservoir levels

Live dam levels, reservoir and tank levels with low-level, abstraction and overflow alerts — on solar at remote sites, through load shedding.

Remote level monitoring →

How it works

Sensor to dashboard — read what you already have.

1 · Sense

Flow, level, pressure and quality sensors at the points that matter — integrated with your existing meters and instruments, not a rip-and-replace.

2 · Buffer at the edge

Edge devices log locally and sync when power and connectivity return, so a night-flow record is never lost to load shedding.

3 · Visualise & alert

One dashboard for quantity, quality and compliance, with threshold alerts to WhatsApp or email the moment something moves.

4 · Report & act

Automated compliance exports and prioritised leak/quality work lists — data that drives an action, not just a chart.

It all runs on the in-house addaNet platform — so your water data can sit alongside energy, asset and production data in one operational picture.

Why addanode for water in South Africa

Built for our networks, our power, our regulator.

Engineered for the conditions you actually operate in: edge buffering and solar so monitoring survives load shedding and reaches off-grid sites; connectivity matched to the site (LoRaWAN, 4G); compliance aligned to DWS and water-use licences; and because we build both the hardware and the software in-house and support it locally, we scope for the loss or the licence that matters most — and start where it pays back fastest.

Frequently asked

Water-monitoring questions we answer.

Most water projects are driven by one of two things: a compliance deadline, or water you're losing and can't locate. Here's how we approach both.

Yes. We monitor the parameters in your water-use licence, log them continuously, and generate the reports DWS expects — so compliance is a dashboard and an export, not a monthly scramble. See our guide on effluent monitoring and DWS compliance.

Yes. District metering plus pressure and minimum-night-flow analysis pinpoints where water is being lost across a reticulation network, so you target repairs instead of guessing. Our non-revenue water guide walks through the method, and you don't have to meter every property to start.

Yes. We use low-power sensors with solar where needed, and LoRaWAN or 4G for connectivity, with local buffering so a dropped signal doesn't lose data — important for reservoirs, boreholes and pump stations in the field. See solar-powered remote monitoring.

Yes. Threshold alerts go to WhatsApp or email the moment a parameter moves out of range, so you can act before a breach becomes a reportable incident.

No. We integrate with the meters, loggers and instruments you already have wherever possible, adding sensing only where there's a gap — the same read-what-you-own approach we take across the addaNet platform.

Yes. We monitor the treatment process end to end — raw-water turbidity, water treatment chemicals (dosing rates and chemical stock levels), pH, dissolved oxygen, COD and final-effluent quality — for both drinking-water and waste water treatment plants. See water treatment plant monitoring.

Yes. Edge devices buffer readings locally and sync when power and connectivity return, so you keep a continuous record across an outage — including the night-flow window that matters most for leak detection.

Not sure which guide is yours? Start with the water monitoring scenario map — fourteen site types, each with its regulator and first measurement.
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Non-revenue water & smart metering

Find and recover municipal water losses.

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Effluent monitoring & DWS compliance

What to measure and how to automate reporting.

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Solar-powered remote monitoring

Off-grid sensing for boreholes and reservoirs.

What we supply, from sensor to dashboard

Layer	What we supply	Standards and approvals
Sensors and meters	Level, flow, pressure, water-quality probes, pump current — vendor-neutral, matched to the site	Meters to OIML R 49 accuracy classes; probes with 4–20 mA/Modbus outputs
Field devices	LoRaWAN nodes, 4G RTUs, edge gateways with local buffering	ICASA type-approved radio; 868 MHz LoRaWAN band
Connectivity	Private LoRaWAN, 4G (LTE Cat-1/Cat-M1), existing SCADA links	TLS-encrypted transport
Platform	addaNet dashboards, alarms, water balance, compliance exports; cloud or on-premise	Role-based access, audit logging, no exposed PLC ports
Integration	Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, direct I/O into existing PLC/SCADA and billing systems	Data handed over as yours

addaNet dashboard for a water quality monitoring device: total flow 2.37 kL, TDS 28 ppm, pressure 81 kPa, temperature 24.6 °C, with three-hour TDS, temperature, pressure and flow trends and the latest data records — addaNet water-quality dashboard on a demonstration line at our Douglasdale office: live TDS, flow, pressure and temperature, three-hour trends, and the record table behind them.

Named with permission: Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa, where we monitor plant water on the addaNet platform. Other South African deployments — municipal and private borehole schemes, treatment works, farms and industrial sites — are described as representative cases without client names. We deliver from Johannesburg to every province, and hand over the data path as yours.

Prove your water numbers — automatically.

Tell us what you need to monitor or report — non-revenue water, effluent compliance, a remote reservoir. We'll scope the sensors, the network and the compliance dashboard, and tell you where to start.

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Water management and monitoring in South Africa — water you can't measure is water you can't manage, or account for.

One platform, four water problems.

Utilities & municipalities

Mining & heavy industry

Factories & processors

Remote & off-grid sites

Quantity, quality and compliance — on one platform.

Quantity, flow & dam levels

Water quality & safety

Compliance & reporting

Non-revenue water

Leak & burst alerts

Remote & off-grid

Sewer network & pump stations

Trade effluent to sewer

Regulatory & catchment oversight

The water projects we're asked for most.

Recover non-revenue water

Automate DWS compliance

Assure water quality

Monitor remote water assets

Monitor a water treatment plant

Track dam & reservoir levels

Sensor to dashboard — read what you already have.

1 · Sense

2 · Buffer at the edge

3 · Visualise & alert

4 · Report & act

Built for our networks, our power, our regulator.

Water-monitoring questions we answer.

Not sure which guide is yours? Start with the water monitoring scenario map — fourteen site types, each with its regulator and first measurement.Go deeper on water.

IoT for water & wastewater in SA

Non-revenue water & smart metering

Effluent monitoring & DWS compliance

Solar-powered remote monitoring

What we supply, from sensor to dashboard

Prove your water numbers — automatically.

Not sure which guide is yours? Start with the water monitoring scenario map — fourteen site types, each with its regulator and first measurement.
Go deeper on water.