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.
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.
Solar remote monitoring →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.
Learn more →Non-revenue water
District metering areas (DMAs), minimum-night-flow analysis and consumption reconciliation to localise where water — and revenue — is disappearing.
Learn more →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 / NB-IoT / 4G with edge buffering — so distance and load shedding aren't barriers.
Learn more →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.
Learn more →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.
Learn more →Regulatory & catchment oversight
For regulators, CMAs and metros — continuous, independent telemetry from every discharger and key river reach, with exception alerts and public dashboards.
Learn more →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.
Water treatment monitoring →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 →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.
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, NB-IoT, 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.
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.
Go deeper on water.
IoT for water & wastewater in SA
The six water-monitoring jobs, and how to choose a provider.
Non-revenue water & smart metering
Find and recover municipal water losses.
Effluent monitoring & DWS compliance
What to measure and how to automate reporting.
Solar-powered remote monitoring
Off-grid sensing for boreholes and reservoirs.
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.