End-to-end Industrial IoT for South African sites — from sensor to dashboard.
addanode builds both the hardware and the software behind addaNet, our Industrial IoT platform for connecting sensors, instruments, PLCs and remote assets into live dashboards, alerts and reports. We help South African water, mining and manufacturing operators measure what matters, keep recording through load shedding, and start with the equipment they already own.
You can't improve what you can't measure.
Data you can't see or trust
Machines, meters and sensors that don't talk to each other. Decisions made on gut feel and spreadsheets that are already out of date by the time you read them.
How addanode fixes it: addaNet pulls every sensor, instrument and PLC into one live platform — one dashboard, real numbers, real time.
Imported solutions priced for elsewhere
Off-the-shelf IIoT platforms are built for European factories and priced in euros — with licences and consultants that don't fit an African budget.
How addanode fixes it: We build the stack ourselves and price it for emerging markets — and it works with the equipment you already own.
Load shedding & patchy connectivity
Power cuts and weak signal on remote sites kill most monitoring projects within a year. Cloud dashboards are useless when the gateway is offline.
How addanode fixes it: Low-power devices, local buffering, and the right network per site — LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, 4G or Sigfox.
Everything runs on addaNet.
addaNet is addanode's in-house Industrial IoT platform — the backbone that connects operational equipment into live data, alerts and decisions. We own every layer, so one local team is accountable from the field device to the dashboard.
1 · Sense
In-house sensors plus your existing instruments, meters and PLCs — read what you already own.
2 · Connect & buffer
Edge gateways over LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, 4G or wired — buffering locally through load shedding.
3 · addaNet platform
Secure ingest, storage and analytics — SA-region cloud or on-premise, your data, your rules.
4 · Dashboards & alerts
Live dashboards, WhatsApp/email alerts, reports and integration into your ERP/MES.
Where we go deepest — all on addaNet.
Water, mining and manufacturing visibility are our focus. Each runs on the same platform, with irrigation, livestock and fleet as adjacent applications.
Industrial IoT Platform (addaNet)
One platform that connects every sensor, instrument and PLC into live dashboards, alerts and reports.
Learn more →Water Management
Quality and quantity monitoring for utilities and industry — non-revenue water, effluent and DWS compliance.
Learn more →Mining Optimisation
MHSA-aligned safety, collision prevention, person location, occupational hygiene and asset health.
Learn more →OEE Management
Measure availability, performance and quality on any line — even old machines — without ripping out your PLC.
Learn more →Asset & Condition Monitoring
Vibration, temperature and current monitoring that catches failures before they stop production.
Learn more →Core & adjacent — all on addaNet.
Irrigation, livestock and fleet run on the same platform as adjacent applications. See the full Core & Adjacent line-up.
See all solutionsOne team, accountable from field device to dashboard.
What we are
- A South African IoT solutions provider and Industrial IoT company that builds the IoT devices and sensors, the edge layer and the addaNet software.
- An end-to-end partner — sensor, connectivity, platform and outcome under one roof.
- Engineers who design for load shedding, remote sites, MHSA and DWS from day one.
What we're not
- Not a generic dashboard reseller bolting together someone else's parts.
- Not only a sensor supplier that leaves the integration to you.
- Not an imported platform priced in euros and built for a European factory.
Built for African industry.
Manufacturing
OEE, downtime tracking, energy and condition monitoring for production lines.
See solutions →Mining
MHSA-aligned safety monitoring, collision prevention, occupational hygiene and asset health.
See solutions →Agriculture
Automated irrigation, precision livestock and remote farm monitoring that survives the bundu.
See solutions →Water Utilities
Quality, flow and pressure monitoring, plus effluent and DWS compliance reporting.
See solutions →Municipalities & Smart City
Smart metering, water loss, energy and infrastructure monitoring for local government.
See solutions →Logistics & Fleet
Vehicle tracking, fuel management and asset telemetry across your fleet.
See solutions →From audit to optimisation — one team, end to end.
Assess
Site & data audit. What's worth measuring.
Design
Sensors, network and platform architecture.
Deploy
Install hardware, gateways and connectivity.
Integrate
Connect existing sensors, instruments & PLCs.
Monitor
Live dashboards, alerts, condition monitoring.
Optimise
Analytics, OEE and continuous improvement.
The shortest answer to "why addanode?"
Hardware and software, both in-house. Most vendors do one or the other and integrate the rest. We build both — so the stack actually fits, and there's one team accountable end-to-end.
Affordable, frontier-market technology. Our mission is to bring leading-edge technology to emerging markets at a price that makes sense here — not a European licence model bolted onto an African budget.
Works with what you already own. addaNet is sensor-, instrument- and PLC-agnostic. We connect your existing equipment instead of asking you to rip and replace.
Engineered for local reality. Load shedding, remote sites, patchy signal, MHSA and DWS compliance — designed in from day one, not patched in later.
More about addanode →
Practical reading for industrial operators.
Why most vibration-based motor monitoring projects are doomed to fail
The failure modes nobody warns you about — and how to scope a project that actually pays back.
South Africa's IoT dilemma: why 4G may be the most practical choice
LoRaWAN vs NB-IoT vs 4G vs Sigfox — a practical decision guide for SA industrial sites.
Effluent monitoring and DWS compliance in South Africa
What the regulator expects, what to measure, and how to automate compliance reporting.
Ready to see your operation in real time?
Tell us what you run and what you're trying to improve. We'll come back inside two working days with a practical view — not a sales pitch.