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FlowSense

About Us

Built by people who
run water plants.

FlowSense didn't start in a software office. It started on plant floors — with Sewtreat engineers who were tired of finding out about a problem hours after it happened. Everything in the platform exists because someone needed it on a shift.

55+

Plants Monitored

2+

Years Operating

25+

Client Companies

Our Story

From the plant floor to the platform

Sewtreat has spent years designing, building and maintaining water and wastewater treatment infrastructure across South Africa. That work put our team in control rooms, on catwalks and inside panels — and it made one gap obvious.

The data was already there. PLCs were recording everything a plant did, second by second. But it sat behind a screen in one room, in a format nobody outside that room could read. Problems were found late. Compliance reporting meant a week of spreadsheet archaeology.

FlowSense was built to close that gap: take the signal the plant already produces, make it legible, and put it in front of the people who can act on it — wherever they happen to be standing.

“Axiom Africa solved a long-standing challenge for us, streamlining our data collection and giving us real-time visibility into operations — a solution no one else could deliver.”

Theunis Coetzer

Sewtreat

How we got here

  1. Engineering first

    Sewtreat builds and maintains treatment infrastructure — the practical foundation everything else rests on.

  2. The data problem

    Plant data existed but stayed locked in the control room. Visibility ended at the door.

  3. FlowSense is built

    Real-time PLC integration, mapped assets, smart alerts and automated compliance reporting.

  4. In production today

    Running on live plants, with operators relying on it every shift.

What we stand on

Practical over impressive

Accuracy first

A reading you can't trust is worse than no reading. Every value is validated before it's shown.

Uptime matters

Plants don't stop, so neither does the platform. Reliability is a design constraint, not a feature.

Compliance built in

Reporting isn't bolted on afterwards — it comes out of the same data the dashboard runs on.

Operator-led

Features come from the people on shift, not from a roadmap written far away from the plant.

Want the full picture?

FlowSense is one part of what Sewtreat does

Design, build, maintenance and operation of water and wastewater treatment infrastructure — see the full range of services on the main Sewtreat site.

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