Let the borehole text you — instead of driving out to check.

Boreholes, reservoirs, dams, pump stations and river gauges are where you need data and where grid power and signal are hardest to get. addanode monitors them with solar-powered water sensors on low-power radio, buffering through load shedding — so a remote asset reports its own level, flow and status, and you stop making the trip just to read a gauge. Live dam level monitoring means you see abstraction and overflow as they happen, not on the next site visit.

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What we deliver

Off-grid sensing that runs for years.

What we sense

Reservoir and tank level, dam levels, borehole level, flow, pressure, pump status and basic water quality monitoring — the numbers that previously needed a site visit.

Solar & low-power

A modest solar panel and battery run a low-power node indefinitely, reporting over LoRaWAN or NB-IoT — no grid, no airtime-hungry link.

Buffer & alert

Edge buffering through outages and poor signal, with alerts on a sudden level drop, a dry-run pump or an abnormal reading.

How we scope it

Sized for the site and the sun.

Match the reporting interval to the decision — it drives the power budget; reporting every few hours uses far less than every 15 minutes.
Size the battery for autonomy — several days with no sun, so the node rides out a cloudy spell.
Size the panel for the worst day — to recharge on a short, overcast winter day, not just a bright summer one.
Buffer at the edge — store readings locally and forward when the link returns, so a connectivity gap never becomes a data gap.
One dashboard — remote assets sit alongside the rest of your network on the addaNet platform, with the same alerting.

The discipline that matters: size for the worst week, not the average. A node sized to survive a cloudy winter spell runs for years; one sized to summer averages fails exactly when the weather turns.

Frequently asked

Remote-monitoring questions.

For how to size solar so it survives winter, see our solar-powered remote monitoring guide.

Yes. A monitoring node draws only a few watt-hours a day, so a small solar panel and battery run it indefinitely, off-grid — there's no grid connection to install and no load shedding to survive.

A properly sized node keeps running because the battery carries several days of autonomy and the panel is sized to recharge on a poor-sun day. The edge device also buffers readings and forwards them when the link returns, so nothing is lost.

Borehole and reservoir levels, dam levels (with abstraction and overflow alerts), pump status, flow and pressure, river gauges and remote tanks — anything remote and low-power, reporting over LoRaWAN or NB-IoT so distance from the grid and from a tower isn't a barrier.

For a rural borehole you want one node that covers pump run/dry-run status, flow, pressure and tank level, with alarms — running on solar and battery (no grid to install), buffering data through outages, and reporting over LoRaWAN, NB-IoT or 4G depending on what reaches the site. Submersible pressure transducers, inline flow meters and ultrasonic/level sensors are the proven sensor set. The deciding factor is rarely the sensor — it's whether it survives off-grid and stays connected from a remote location, and whether one local provider installs, supports and integrates it (SMS/WhatsApp/email alerts, dashboard or SCADA) so a failed pump triggers an alert instead of a dry reservoir. That is exactly how addanode builds remote borehole monitoring.

Have a remote water asset you can't easily reach?

Tell us what you need to monitor and where. We'll size a solar-powered, off-grid node to run reliably through South African winters and cloudy spells.

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