Field-tested monitoring for South African sites

Know what's happening on site before it costs you something.

DataDam reports live sensor readings to one dashboard and keeps recording through load-shedding and patchy signal, catching up the moment the connection is back. Start with the weather station and the ready-made modules below, or tell us what you're running and we'll build it out.

Running today

One core, three ready-made ways to use it

Every card below runs on the same core: sense, store, send. What changes is what's built on top.

Telemetry core

A solar-powered weather station reporting local conditions to your dashboard, no mains power or fixed internet required.

  • Temperature, humidity, pressure, rain & wind
  • Battery level and GPS location per node
  • Alerts when a device goes quiet, not just when it fails

Brew Butler

Recipe-to-glass brewing production, built on the same core that runs your telemetry.

  • Recipe formulation & ingredient inventory
  • Batch tracking from mash-in to packaging
  • Fermentation-chamber thermostat linking
Explore Brew Butler

Shepherds Watch

Herd management for commercial farms — the admin layer today, GPS & health monitoring next.

  • Vaccination scheduling & staff task assignment
  • Breeding & production records
  • GPS & health monitoring — on the roadmap
Explore Shepherds Watch

Vault Guard

Firearm & ammunition vault compliance for licensed dealers — vaults, customers and the SAPS register.

  • Vaults, customers & licence tracking
  • Ledger Scan — AI register digitisation
  • Vault humidity monitoring via linked sensors
Explore Vault Guard

Built for your operation

Running something that isn't on this list?

Same core — sense, store, send — built out for a different job. We've done it for brewing, livestock and firearm compliance. Tell us what you're tracking and we'll tell you honestly whether it's worth building.

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How it works

Data has to get through, even when the line doesn't

Every DataDam device follows the same path from field to screen. Nothing waits on a perfect connection.

01

Sense

Sensors take a reading on the interval you set — every minute, every five, whatever the job needs.

02

Decide

Where it applies, a linked device acts on the reading on-site — a fermentation chamber holding temperature, a vault reporting humidity — without checking in first.

03

Store & send

Readings queue on the device until a connection is available, then upload over whatever's on hand.

04

Report

Data lands in one dashboard with its original timestamp, not the time it happened to arrive.

One platform underneath

Every device reports into the same dashboard

Weather station, Brew Butler, Shepherds Watch or Vault Guard — it all shows up in one place, alongside device status and history. Add a new device and it's another feed on the same screen, not a separate app.

  • Live readings and device status
  • Custom alerts and thresholds
  • Historical trends and reporting
  • Built to connect to systems you already run
DataDam dashboard showing live sensor readings and trends

Built to keep recording

Reliable by design

A dropped connection shouldn't mean lost data. DataDam holds onto every reading and knows when something's actually wrong, instead of quietly going quiet.

No dropped data

Sensor nodes store readings locally and retry automatically if a transmission fails, instead of discarding them.

Accurate timestamps

Every reading keeps the time it was actually measured, not the time it happened to upload.

You know when something's wrong

Alerts for a device going offline, a failing sensor, or a low battery, so a quiet station never reads the same as a healthy one.

Where it's headed

Same platform, more places to point it

These build on the same architecture. Some are running with pilot customers already; others are on the roadmap.

  • Tank & fuel level monitoring
  • Cold room compliance logging
  • GPS & asset tracking
  • LoRa networks for large sites
  • Soil moisture & water quality
  • Pump & irrigation automation
  • Camera integrations (ONVIF, Hikvision, Dahua)

Get in touch

Talk to Bruce about your site

Tell us what you're trying to keep an eye on, whether that's one of the modules above or something we haven't built yet. We'll tell you straight whether DataDam is a fit.