Industrial IoT engineered for the conditions African sites actually run in.
addanode builds its own hardware and its own software. That decision — unusual for a company our size — exists for one reason: imported monitoring platforms assume stable power, fast networks and an on-call instrumentation technician. Most African sites have none of the three.
addaNet — one platform, sensor to dashboard.
addaNet is our Industrial IoT platform. It connects the sensors, meters, instruments and PLCs a site already owns — over 500 industrial protocols including Modbus, OPC-UA and MQTT — into live dashboards, threshold alerts and audit-ready reports. Where a measurement is missing, we add our own low-power sensor hardware. One team is accountable from the field device to the dashboard.
Everything is engineered around three facts of frontier-market operations:
Power fails
Devices are low-power and battery-buffered; gateways log locally through outages and diesel changeovers, then back-fill the record. No gaps in your OEE or compliance data.
Networks drop
Store-and-forward edge gateways over LoRaWAN or 4G — chosen per site, per coverage reality. Dashboards stay usable on a phone over 3G.
Maintenance is thin
Long-life batteries, remote diagnostics and over-the-air updates: hardware designed for months between site visits, supported by engineers on WhatsApp.
Engineering from Johannesburg, installation on your site.
Our engineering team and hardware base are in Johannesburg, South Africa, where addanode has its deepest deployment footprint (see addanode.co.za).
Across twenty-one country markets we deliver through a model proven across Southern Africa: remote assessment → pre-configured hardware shipped to site → installation with local partners or your own electricians under our remote guidance → live monitoring and WhatsApp support. Configurations are adapted to each country's power, coverage and industry reality — a Naivasha packhouse and a Tema factory do not get the same design.
Through our sister company CISH (China Industrial Service Hub), the group has delivered 20+ complete production lines across 8 African countries — line sourcing from vetted Chinese manufacturers with engineering selection, FAT/SAT, installation and commissioning. Where a monitoring enquiry becomes a production-line project (or the reverse), the two teams work together under the same group, sharing the phone number you'll find in the footer.
Engineering honesty is the sales pitch.
- Real numbers or no numbers. We quote cost bands and payback logic in writing after a remote assessment.
- Start with what you own. If your PLCs and meters can be read, we read them. New hardware only where a measurement is missing.
- Real locality. Every country page carries that market's own regulators, utilities, tariffs and operating constraints, researched market by market — and where a configuration is adapted from our Southern African deployments, we describe it as exactly that.
- Engineers answer. WhatsApp and discovery calls go to people who design these systems, not to a script.
The people behind addanode.
The team that designs a sensor is the same team that writes the platform and commissions it on your site — 50+ years of combined hardware and software engineering, plus hands-on plant-floor, mine-site and infrastructure-finance experience.
Meet the team →Four things worth reading before you call.
The technology
addaNet from the sensor to the dashboard — what we build ourselves, what we read from your equipment, and the four design decisions that follow from unstable power and thin networks.
Our technology →How we deliver
Remote assessment, hardware pre-configured in Johannesburg, installation by your technicians under live guidance. The six steps, what each one costs you in time, and what the model does badly.
How we deliver →Why addanode
An honest comparison against the four options buyers are actually weighing: a global platform vendor, a local automation firm, building in-house, or carrying on with spreadsheets.
Why addanode →Partners & integration
Vendor-neutral by design: we read the PLCs, meters and controllers you already own. How we work alongside your automation contractor, and where CISH fits.
Partners & integration →Talk to the team.
Tell us what you run and what you want to see. We'll tell you honestly whether it pays back.