VRV Drive

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VRV Drive is the easiest way to find manufacturer's data for air conditioning units

Goals

• Make it fast & easy to find critical manufacturer's data for a given product and model
• Ensure data is always accurate and up to date
• Allow the user to download the Submittal Datasheet (PDF file)

Solution

• Highly performant, static site built on Gatsby (opens in a new tab), React, UI Kit (opens in a new tab), GraphQL and deployed to AWS Cloudfront + S3
• Cron job to amalgamate data from the manufacturers’ websites using Puppeteer (opens in a new tab)
• Fast and accurate search to find products and models by name, manufacturer ID and keywords built on Algolia (opens in a new tab)
• Simple CMS using online Excel which the client was familiar with

Design

Outcomes

• User can search and find a product model in less than 20 seconds
• User can search and download a Submittal Datasheet in less than 30 seconds
• Segmented manufacturers' information can be found in 1 place
• All information is updated nightly to ensure accuracy