Oriontech (pty) Ltd

Name

Oriontech (pty) Ltd

Legal name

Oriontech (Pty) Ltd

Website

https://www.oriontech.co.za

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial IoT and Data Analytics Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Grid Data & Analytics Enablement (MDM, Data Integration, Hosting) (EUAEANAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Instrumentation, Controls & Automation (DCS/PLC/SCADA, SIS, Metering) (EUAEAFAC), SCADA/DMS/OMS Integration, Upgrades & Managed Services (EUAEANAE)

Keywords

• Industrial IoT solutions
• SCADA integration services
• PLC data extraction
• Industrial data analytics
• Utilities management platforms

Headquarters

HQ city

Johannesburg

HQ country

South Africa

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Custom Software Development & Integration: Full-stack proprietary software solutions built from the ground up to solve unique operational challenges. Includes custom web and mobile apps, API and system integration, and legacy system modernisation. Revenue is project-based, typically with defined scoping and implementation timelines.
2. Advanced Sensor Technology & IoT Deployment: PLC and SCADA integration, IoT device deployment, and remote asset monitoring. Hardware and deployment services combined with software integration, generating both one-time installation revenue and ongoing monitoring/service revenue.
3. Cloud Services & Managed Services: Azure and AWS managed services, edge computing, data lake architecture. Containerised deployment of Oriontech products (FurnaceIQ, Smart Monitoring). Ongoing managed service fees for infrastructure maintenance and monitoring.
4. Process Automation & SCADA Development: Control system design, SCADA development, automated reporting, and process digitisation. Control system design and SCADA development are typically project-based engagements.
5. Advanced BI, Visualisation & KPI Optimisation: Real-time dashboards, predictive analytics, ML and AI models, OEE improvement, labour efficiency, and quality tracking. Often bundled with platform subscriptions for FurnaceIQ and Smart Monitoring.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Oriontech provides end-to-end Industrial IoT, data extraction and automation solutions that connect to PLCs, SCADA systems, IoT sensors and other industrial assets, centralise and analyse the data using cloud, edge and machine learning, and deliver real-time dashboards and operator-grade advice. Its core productised offerings are the FurnaceIQ smelter monitoring and advisor platform, the Smart Monitoring multi-site utilities platform, and the Oriontech Operations multi-site tank monitoring dashboard, sold as custom enterprise subscriptions and implementation projects to South African industrial operators.

Product overview

Oriontech is a Johannesburg-based industrial data management and automation company offering a portfolio of named products and free utility tools. The core product family includes FurnaceIQ (industrial smelter monitoring and advisor platform), Smart Monitoring (multi-site utilities management), Oriontech Operations (multi-site tank monitoring dashboard), and GridSight (Formula 1 analytics platform). These products share a common data pipeline architecture: connect to PLCs/SCADA/IoT sensors, centralise and store data, apply analytics and AI/ML models, and deliver real-time visualisations. Oriontech also publishes free consumer-facing tools — including a Fuel Savings Calculator, SA Fuel Price Tracker, Fuel Snapshot for Social, Fuel Flip Reel, Eskom Increase Calculator, Solar ROI Calculator, and Worth It? Story — as share-ready content powered by live South African energy data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GridSight: A Formula 1 data analytics platform featuring real-time standings, historical comparisons, and driver performance breakdowns. Built by Oriontech at gridsight.co.za.
• FurnaceIQ
• Smart Monitoring
• Oriontech Operations
• SA Fuel Price Tracker

Products and services

• FurnaceIQ Subscription-based industrial monitoring and advisor platform purpose-built for smelter and furnace operations. Connects via OPC-UA, Modbus TCP, MQTT Sparkplug, Ethernet/IP or vendor-native drivers to PLCs from Siemens S7, Allen-Bradley ControlLogix, Schneider M580, Mitsubishi iQ-R, ABB AC500 and Beckhoff TwinCAT. Delivers 500ms data refresh, per-tag anomaly detection, auto-generated post-mortems, optional closed-loop setpoint advice with supervisor sign-off, and multi-site SSO. Customers include Transalloys and Tenova Pyromet.
• Smart Monitoring Subscription-based multi-site utilities management platform that monitors live electricity, water and gas across commercial and industrial estates, automatically detects waste, quantifies savings in rand and generates ranked payback-based recommendations. Meter-agnostic, integrating Landis+Gyr, Schneider Electric, Carlo Gavazzi, Elster and Itron meters over BACnet, Modbus TCP, MQTT and Ethernet/IP; can also pull data from SCADA or BMS or ingest municipal CSV. Includes IPMVP-grade measurement and verification, tariff-aware demand intelligence and multi-site rollup with SSO and role-based access.
• Oriontech Operations Multi-site tank monitoring dashboard for industrial operations managing diesel, LPG and water across multiple locations. Connects to Fuel SA for live South African diesel, petrol and LPG pump prices, tracks tank stock value at Weighted Average Cost, calculates cost-to-refill against the live market, triggers alert workflows for offline sensors and quantifies rand-per-month savings recommendations. Includes live camera feeds and tank visuals.
• GridSight Formula 1 data analytics platform providing real-time driver and constructor standings, historical season comparisons and individual driver performance breakdowns. Built and operated by Oriontech at gridsight.co.za to publicly demonstrate the company's end-to-end data pipeline and visualisation capabilities.
• Car Calculator Free online calculator comparing running costs of conventional vehicles against more efficient or electric alternatives. Uses live South African diesel and petrol prices from Fuel SA and Eskom Homepower marginal tariff rates. No signup or email gate.
• SA Fuel Price Tracker Free interactive public tool showing the historical record of South African petrol and diesel prices, including the full gazetted levy breakdown and side-by-side Highveld versus Coast comparisons. Powered by live Fuel SA data, Brent crude prices and ZAR/USD exchange rates.
• Fuel Snapshot for Social Free tool that auto-generates share-ready social media cards showing current fuel prices versus January, trip cost comparisons across vehicle types and annual fuel bill breakdowns. Designed for posting on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
• Fuel Flip Reel Free auto-cycling square video stage showing five fuel-cost comparisons. Designed for screen-recording and posting to LinkedIn.
• Eskom Increase Calculator Free calculator showing the rand impact of NERSA's Eskom tariff hikes across all household tariff tiers (Homelight, Homepower, Homeflex), with appliance-level running cost breakdowns. Anchored to the 8.76% April 2026 tariff increase.
• Solar ROI Calculator Free calculator for estimating solar system savings and payback on the Eskom Homeflex tariff, accounting for the April 2026 fixed daily charge floor and Gen-Offset feed-in credits.
• Worth It? Story Free 8-frame storytelling reel comparing bakkie, hybrid and EV running costs with solar, designed for screen-recording and sharing on LinkedIn.

Quantifiable outcome

• Smart Monitoring delivers first verified saving within 21 days of kickoff. Most deployments pay for themselves before the first invoice.
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration23 records

AI capability8 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Samsara: Industrial IoT platform combining fleet telematics, equipment monitoring, and site visibility for industrial and logistics operators. Overlaps with Oriontech's Logistics & Fleet and remote-asset-monitoring offerings; broad incumbent with significantly larger scale.
• AVEVA: Global industrial software and data infrastructure company (formerly OSIsoft) providing PI System historians, SCADA integration, and industrial analytics. Directly comparable to the data-pipeline and analytics layer Oriontech delivers for smelter and utility customers.
• Honeywell Forge: Honeywell's industrial analytics platform unifying operational data from assets, processes, and people for industrial customers. Comparable broad-in incumbent with overlapping capability in process-industry analytics and SCADA integration similar to Oriontech's offering.
• Siemens MindSphere: Siemens's industrial IoT platform offering open connectivity for PLCs (including S7) and cloud-based analytics. Competes head-on with Oriontech's PLC-agnostic integration and FurnaceIQ advisor capabilities, especially given the Siemens S7-1500 integration Oriontech ships.
• PTC (ThingWorx / Kepware): PTC's industrial IoT and connectivity suite (ThingWorx platform plus Kepware OPC-UA/Modbus drivers) is the dominant global PLC-to-cloud integration layer. Highly comparable to Oriontech's protocol-conversion and data-extraction backbone, with much broader scale.

Direct peers

• IoT.nxt: South Africa-based IIoT platform company focused on industrial connectivity, device management, and data integration for mining, manufacturing, and utilities. Closest direct competitor to Oriontech in the SA IIoT/automation space with similar enterprise sales motion and vertical focus.

Emerging players

• Uptake Technologies: Industrial AI and analytics platform delivering predictive insights for asset-intensive industries including mining, energy, and manufacturing. Comparable AI-on-industrial-data positioning to Oriontech's ML-driven FurnaceIQ and Smart Monitoring capabilities.
• Augury: AI-driven predictive maintenance and asset-health platform for industrial machinery, with strong ML/AI stack similar to Oriontech's FurnaceIQ and Smart Monitoring. Comparable as a specialised AI-for-industry competitor expanding globally.

Regional players

• SqwidNet: South African IoT/M2M connectivity provider (Sigfox operator) enabling low-power wide-area networking for industrial, agricultural, and asset-tracking use cases. Comparable as a regional SA IoT enabler, particularly for the Smart Agriculture and Remote Security demos Oriontech has announced.
• Thingstream: South Africa-headquartered IoT connectivity and platform company (acquired by u-blox). Provides M2M connectivity over MQTT and offers a device-management and data-routing layer for industrial IoT deployments — overlapping with Oriontech's edge/connectivity focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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