Interactive Displays Overview
What This Track Covers
This track covers the part of the display market where a large-format screen is expected to be both a visual surface and an interactive work surface. This includes products used for teaching, brainstorming, presenting, annotating, screen sharing, and in some cases running hybrid meetings directly from the display itself.[^1][^2][^3]
The market uses several overlapping labels:
| Label | What it usually means in practice |
|---|---|
interactive display | A broad label for large touch-enabled collaboration screens.[^1][^2] |
interactive flat panel display (IFPD) | A more formal industry label, especially common in education and AV channels.[^2][^4] |
digital flipchart | A collaboration-first positioning, usually closer to whiteboarding and meetings than to school IT stacks.[^1] |
smart board | A popular generic label, but not a precise technical category on its own.[^5] |
For this track, the working definition is:
An interactive display is a large touch-enabled panel used for collaborative teaching, presenting, annotating, or hybrid meeting workflows.
In Scope vs. Out of Scope
In Scope
- classroom and training-room interactive panels[^2][^4][^5][^6]
- collaboration boards used in meeting rooms and shared workspaces[^1][^3][^7]
- touch displays that act as the front-of-room surface for hybrid meeting workflows[^3][^7][^8]
Out of Scope
- non-touch front-of-room displays or standard meeting-room TVs[^8]
- kiosks, wayfinding screens, and retail self-service touch displays
- digital signage products whose primary job is one-way content playback rather than collaboration; for example, Promethean now separates its ActivPanel D-Series as a non-interactive signage line[^9]
Category Overlap
Vendors often mix education language, meeting-room language, and platform language on the same product family page. Samsung Flip Pro is presented as a touch-first collaborative board for both schools and businesses, while Promethean ActivPanel 9 is framed more explicitly around teachers, IT administrators, and school leaders.[^1][^2] LG CreateBoard and MAXHUB XBoard extend this overlap by referring to both classrooms and boardrooms on the same family pages.[^5][^7]
Accordingly, this track separates:
- category shape
- segment-by-segment use cases
- vendor positioning
- platform and certification claims
- model review rules
Reading Map
Use the rest of this track in this order:
- Category Segmentation for the market map.
- Vendor Landscape in Vietnam for brand positioning and local presence signals.
- Platforms and Certifications for the ecosystem and compliance layer.
- Review Framework and Market Watchlist for how this KB will evaluate real products and quoted SKUs.
Source Hierarchy
This track treats official vendor pages and platform certification pages as the main source of truth for product family definitions, capabilities, and ecosystem claims. Local distributor and reseller pages are used only as market signals for Vietnam presence, bundles, and quoting patterns unless they point to an official datasheet.[^4][^8]
[^1]: Samsung Business Vietnam - Flip Pro WM65B [^2]: Promethean World - ActivPanel 9 [^3]: Zoom - Zoom Rooms for Touch [^4]: Microsoft Learn - Teams Rooms certified systems and peripherals [^5]: LG US Business - CreateBoard [^6]: ViewSonic - IFP7552-2ED ViewBoard [^7]: MAXHUB - XBoard V7 Series [^8]: CMS - Exclusive distributor of Samsung Flip in Vietnam [^9]: Promethean - ActivPanel D-Series