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Our Company

Decades in the environments where reliability is everything

For more than fifty years, Sentiv has kept South Africa's most demanding operations connected, coordinated and safe. What began as a specialist in mission-critical communications, formerly known as Altron Nexus, has grown into a technology partner that connects the whole operation, from the radio in the field to the sensor on the asset and the decision in the control room.

That heritage matters. We have spent our history in control rooms, on mine sites, at municipal networks and alongside emergency services, so we understand what is at stake when communication drops or visibility is lost. It is experience that cannot be bought in, and it is the foundation of everything we build today.

 

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WHAT WE DO

Critical Communications and Critical Operations

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Critical communications

Instant, reliable voice, video and secure messaging that hold up when it matters, across push-to-talk over cellular, digital radio and dispatch. The core of our business for five decades, trusted by hundreds of operations nationwide.

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Critical Operations

Everything that runs and protects an operation: intelligent security and access, IoT sensing from ground to cloud, connectivity that reaches anywhere, and the platforms and managed services that turn data into decisions.

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Two capabilities, one accountable partner

Today Sentiv brings together two converging capabilities. Critical communications keep every team connected with instant voice, video and secure messaging across cellular and radio. Critical operations connect and protect the operation itself, through intelligent security, sensing, platforms and managed services.

Bringing the two together in one company is what sets us apart. We help organisations communicate, see what is happening and act on it, delivered and supported by a single partner who is accountable for the whole outcome.

 


Our History

Founded in 1965, Sentiv has spent more than 60 years delivering mission-critical technology, and today works with 200+ business partners across sub-Saharan Africa, built on inclusivity and regional collaboration.

Our story begins with the South African operations of Motorola and runs through a series of names that helped shape the industry, Alcom Systems, Alcom Matomo, Altech Alcom Matomo and Altech Radio Holdings, before the business rebranded as Altron Nexus in 2018 as part of the Altron Group.

Today, as Sentiv, we carry that heritage forward while defining the future of intelligent, secure communications and operations across Africa.

 

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1965

Motorola South Africa
Two-way radio arrives commercially in South Africa, and the business that becomes Sentiv is founded to deploy it.

1980s

Alcom
Expansion into mining and industrial radio, and the start of the field service network that still operates today.

1990s

Altech
Digital trunking and the first large public safety deployments for metropolitan emergency services.

2000s

Altron Nexus
Control rooms, video and integration join the portfolio. Communications becomes operations.

2000s

Sentiv
Independent, and building integrated solutions across voice, video, IoT and connectivity, under one line of accountability.

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