Sensus website uses SiteSphere CMS for user and management efficiency
ActiveBrand has launched a graphically rich product-based website on its SiteSphere content management system (CMS) for the ESAAP division of Sensus – a global leader in Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems for energy and water utilities.
The site – www.sensusesaap.com – delivers significant benefits with a new user interface designed to add speed and efficiency to product selection – helping prospective customers with a range of devices from simple icon-driven navigation, to fast searches using filter-driven, drop-down menus.
Three ‘Configurators’ have been built into the site to offer users three different approaches for product selection:
- Configurator 1 offers a drop-down filter based upon metering application
- Configurator 2 starts with a choice of AMR preferences
- Configurator 3 offers a walk-through, multiple-choice selection process.
Additional selection is provided from the home page via icons for products categorised by application, namely: Residential, Apartments and Submetering, Commercial and Industrial Meters, Heating and Cooling, Systems, and Services.
Design was by ActiveBrand's studio ‘meep meep creative’, the graphically-driven nature of the www.sensusesaap.com was created as a function to simplify access for visitors using each of the 11 languages the site is provided in. These languages include Russian and Chinese.
SiteSphere provides key advantages in the management of the site’s content. Sensus manages its information on Microsoft’s SharePoint information-sharing solution. This includes a large amount of complex product information, datasheets, images and videos. The SiteSphere SharePoint Connector provides seamless integration, allowing the Sensus ESAAP site content to be populated and managed automatically. This minimises the risk of out-of-date content. Another advantage Sensus gains from using SiteSphere, is the ability for different parts of the site to be managed from various locations — each of the different language versions for example.
About Sensus
Sensus provides real world, proven solutions of high-value metering, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system solutions for water, gas, electric and heat utilities. Sensus has one of the largest installed AMI bases in the world. The organisation is a global leader that constantly strives to push the boundaries of utility management. It achieves this through innovative communication systems that enable customers to use their resources with greater choice, better control and unprecedented efficiency.
The specification of the Sensus website raised many challenges, including the variety of languages, the complexity of our product information, and the fact that we needed control over the site’s content. SiteSphere delivered everything we asked for. We’re confident that as we move ahead we can depend upon SiteSphere as the platform on which Sensus presents its products, services and personality to its global marketplace.
Christophe Bozon, Sensus ESAAP Marketing Communications Manager
http://www.sensusesaap.com/