Interactive Whiteboard Market

Interactive Whiteboard Market Insights

The Interactive Whiteboard Market is expected to grow at a significant CAGR during the forecast period. Increased trends of digital learning in the corporate sector and education and adoption of new learning techniques through e-learning and digitalized classroom has increased the market demand for interactive whiteboards. Interactive whiteboards have introduced the advanced learning methods for end users so that they can fully adapt and gain user-friendly learning experience.

In the current employment scenario, institutions, colleges, and digital learning centers are preparing students to gain employment opportunities across industries such as aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare. Companies across these sectors are using interactive whiteboards to enhance the learning experience.

The idea behind the use of interactive whiteboard could be delivering a roadmap through visual presentations to the group of people who are interested in learning about different topics and subjects.  The interactive whiteboard could be seen as the better replacement for traditional flipcharts, and for existing conventional whiteboards.

Apart from these benefits, it helps students and employees on their overall skill growth by performing complex technical operations. It is expected that the growing trend of education gamification will drive the market growth in the coming years.

Interactive Whiteboard Market: By Applications

The Interactive Whiteboard Market can be segmented based on the applications into education and corporate sector. The market for this segment is expected to show remarkable growth during the forecast period.  The reason behind this growth is expected to be an increased understanding of the use of the interactive whiteboard to improve the learning experience in classrooms as well as businesses. The education sector is expected to contribute the majority revenue share in the use of interactive whiteboards and during the forecast period, the revenue share is expected to increase in the sector. One of the key factors triggering the demand for the use of an interactive whiteboard could be tech-savvy youth, who are well updated with the growing trends of digital devices.

Interactive Whiteboard Market: By Technology

The Interactive Whiteboard Markets can be segmented based on the technology into Resistive Membrane and Capacitive. Infrared and electromagnetic pen are other key interactive whiteboard technologies. Technological advancements in the market have increased the demand for the interactive whiteboards. A major amount of market share has been acquired by a resistive membrane segment. The user-friendly experience of the resistive membrane technology has increased the demand for the technology. Moreover, as compared to other technologies, this technology is more cost effective to use.

Capacitive boards are also showing a significant amount of growth rate. The main reason behind this could be the technology can be found in the tablets, smartphones, and now in interactive whiteboards. The demand for the capacitive technology could be increased owing to the feature of sensitivity, responsiveness to multi-touch and moreover durable.

Interactive Whiteboard Market: By Form Factor

The interactive whiteboard market can be segmented based on the form factor into two designs namely, Fixed and portable. Fixed designed whiteboards provide a standard aspect ratio thus considered to be more user-friendly.  It is compatible with the most of the existing computer setups and projectors hence do not require any upgrade on the existing equipment. It has a robust construction with accurate and reliable finger touch interactivity which has increased the demand for fixed Interactive whiteboards.

Portable design whiteboards have some new technologies incorporated in it, such as auto calibration technique, laser image technology, ad gesture recognition systems. Portable design whiteboards are suitable for instant presentations during small classroom studies and business trips. Various gesture recognition are involved in portable designed boards such as, moving, writing, zooming in and out, erasing, and scrolling up and down, with the only movement of fingers. These technological advancements have made it popular amongst the teachers as well as corporates.

Interactive Whiteboard Market: By Projection Technique

The interactive whiteboard market can be segmented based on the projection technique into two types: front projection and rear projection. More than half of the market share is accounted by front projection technique.  These interactive whiteboards are assembled with a video projector, generally fixed to the board frame, which leans over the board onto the board’s surface externally. One of the disadvantages of front projection is that the presenter or teacher has to extend his or her arm by standing in front of the screen, in order to avoid casting a shadow.

It is expected that rear projection segment will display highest CAGR over the forecast period. One of the reasons for such growth is that it traces emissive display or projector behind the whiteboard in order to avoid the occurrence of shadows.

Interactive Whiteboards Market: By Screen Size

The market for interactive whiteboards can be segmented on the basis of screen size into, up to 69”, 70” to 90”, above 90”. Different screen sizes of the interactive whiteboards are used for different purposes.  Up to 69” can be used for delivering instant presentations by the corporates and for the small classrooms studies. 70” to 90” are generally used in medium-sized classrooms and in board meetings to pitch the ideas. It is the most demanded size across the globe as it is comfortable for the presenter to present his idea with an ample amount of space.

Interactive Whiteboard Market: By End Users

The market for interactive whiteboards can be segmented based on the end users into education, corporate and government. It is anticipated from the study that the education sector holds the largest share in this segment and it is expected that the dominance of the sector in this segment will also prevail in the coming years. Education sector uses the interactive whiteboard to make the learning experience easier and more user-friendly for the students. Use of interactive whiteboard also helps in overall growth of skills as it provides the platform for the end users to perform complex technical operations.

Interactive Whiteboard Market: Regional Insights

North America is expected to dominate the market for the interactive whiteboard, with the U.S. contributing its majority share. The region’s dominance can be attributed to the various factors one of them being well-developed infrastructure and also due to the presence of smart classrooms and the increased use of various digital learning techniques, one of them being e-learning. There has been much investment in the market of interactive whiteboards in the country because of which there have been continuous technological advancements in the education sector.

The Asia Pacific market for interactive whiteboard is projected to grow at highest CAGR over the forecast periods owing to the investments by prominent players and various initiatives to increase the use of digital services in the education sector. With the development in the countries such as India, Japan, government has taken various initiatives to provide proper technological equipment in the classrooms in order to facilitate easy learning for students.

 Interactive Whiteboard Market: End-Use Landscape

The end-use landscape entails a list of current and prospective consumers prevailing across the regions. This section provides company addresses, contact details, products, and regional presence of companies who are purchasing or are likely to purchase surgical retractors over the coming years. Some institutions which are currently using interactive whiteboard and are likely to use in future are New York City board of education, Fairfax County public school, Los Angeles unified school districts, Clarke County school, every local authority in England, Wales and Scotland and others are currently using or likely to use interactive whiteboard.

Interactive Whiteboard Market: Vendor Landscape

The report contains a chapter dedicated to vendors operating in the market, covering raw material manufactures, equipment developers, manufacturers, and distributors. The report provides these insights on a regional level. This section of the report entails contact details, experience, products manufactured/supplied, and geographical presence of companies.

Interactive Whiteboard Market: Share & Competitor Analysis

Some of the key players operating in the Interactive Whiteboard Market are Hitachi, Ltd.; SMART Technologies; Mimio; Promethean Ltd.and Egan Teamboard Inc. The market for interactive whiteboards is still emerging and evolving in order to make the learning experience user friendly and more interactive. This emergence has opened and in future will further open the market for various other industry players.

Please note: This is not an exhaustive list of companies profiled in the report.

By the year 2015, 70% of the schools in UK were equipped with the interactive whiteboard.