Built and proven in South Africa. Engineered to travel.
These deployments were delivered by our engineering team in South Africa — the market where addanode was built and where our full case-study library lives. We publish them here, unduplicated and unembellished, because the operating conditions they were engineered for — power outages, remote sites, ageing equipment, strained utilities — are the same conditions across the continent. We don't claim local deliveries we haven't made; what we bring to your country is this build pattern, pre-configured hardware and remote-guided installation.
Reliability & visibility at Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa ↗
With water specialist Talbot: Industrial IoT quietly supporting a disciplined CCBSA bottling team on water-process reliability — named with client approval; addanode also works with CCBA operations in Zambia and Botswana.
Why it travels: when the world's most recognisable beverage brand lets a monitoring partner walk its floor, the listen-first pattern is the credential — it applies to every bottler on the continent.
Recovering municipal non-revenue water ↗
District metering and night-flow analysis turned a city's loss percentage into a ranked, fixable zone list.
Why it travels: the same DMA pattern behind our NRW solution in all six countries — Kenya's 48% national figure is this problem at scale.
Smart-factory OEE on an ageing line ↗
Live, reason-coded OEE read from a legacy line with no new PLC — surviving load shedding.
Why it travels: ageing lines and unstable power describe most African factories; the retrofit pattern needs no controller replacement anywhere.
Cold chain through power outages ↗
Wireless temperature monitoring across scattered fridges and cold rooms, with records that survive every outage.
Why it travels: outage-proof cold chain is the exact requirement for agri-exporters from Nairobi to Accra.
Preventing sewage pump-station overflows ↗
Wet-well levels and pump status caught failing stations before spills reached the river.
Why it travels: pump stations fail the same way on every network; the telemetry pattern is identical for water supply stations.
The Smart Water Shop System (ADDAN5W) ↗
Continuous quality sensing, predictive filter alerts and a customer-facing display for retail water.
Why it travels: the closest cousin to East Africa's water ATM economy — trust made visible at the point of sale.
Predictive maintenance on a critical conveyor ↗
Weeks of bearing warning converted a catastrophic stop into a planned swap.
Why it travels: mills, conveyors and crushers from the Copperbelt to Geita fail with the same signatures.
Connecting a legacy, multi-vendor plant ↗
One dashboard over machines from five eras and vendors — without scarce specialist skills.
Why it travels: multi-vendor, mixed-age plants are the African norm, not the exception.
Connecting a plant without exposing the PLCs ↗
Read-only, segmented data extraction — production visibility with zero control exposure.
Why it travels: the security pattern applies unchanged wherever your PLCs are.
Drinking-water quality assurance on a stressed system ↗
Continuous quality verification between lab samples for a system under pressure.
Why it travels: stressed systems and stretched labs are the reality for most African utilities.
Full library — seventeen case studies across water, manufacturing and mining — at addanode.co.za/case-studies.
The case studies on one table
Each row is a delivered South African project; the same architecture is what we deploy from Johannesburg across the countries on this site.
| Case study | Sector | What was measured | Delivered in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability & visibility at Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa | Manufacturing | With water specialist Talbot: Industrial IoT quietly supporting a disciplined CCBSA bottling team on water-process reliability — named with client approval; addanode also works with CCBA operations in Zambia and Botswana | South Africa |
| Recovering municipal non-revenue water | Water | District metering and night-flow analysis turned a city's loss percentage into a ranked, fixable zone list | South Africa |
| Smart-factory OEE on an ageing line | Manufacturing | Live, reason-coded OEE read from a legacy line with no new PLC — surviving load shedding | South Africa |
| Cold chain through power outages | Cold Chain | Wireless temperature monitoring across scattered fridges and cold rooms, with records that survive every outage | South Africa |
| Preventing sewage pump-station overflows | Water | Wet-well levels and pump status caught failing stations before spills reached the river | South Africa |
| The Smart Water Shop System (ADDAN5W) | Retail Water | Continuous quality sensing, predictive filter alerts and a customer-facing display for retail water | South Africa |
| Predictive maintenance on a critical conveyor | Condition Monitoring | Weeks of bearing warning converted a catastrophic stop into a planned swap | South Africa |
| Connecting a legacy, multi-vendor plant | Integration | One dashboard over machines from five eras and vendors — without scarce specialist skills | South Africa |
| Connecting a plant without exposing the PLCs | Security | Read-only, segmented data extraction — production visibility with zero control exposure | South Africa |
| Drinking-water quality assurance on a stressed system | Water | Continuous quality verification between lab samples for a system under pressure | South Africa |
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