Infrared Technology (IR Touch)
The infrared interactive smartboards are whiteboards that captures interferences at the surface with infrared lights. The interaction method can differ and when any area on the board is pressed, the board is able to trigger the location of the touch and hence creating a connection between the board and the device it is connected to. The board can be used for a variety of applications as classroom education, corporate boardrooms, training or activity rooms for organizations, professional sports coaching facilities, and broadcasting studios.

Capacitive Technology
This technology uses the electrical capacitance of the human body to create an interactive platform that enables the device to detect the desired information the user touches. This technology allows light touches giving the possibility of using finger and can often act as a large touch screen similar to our phones. However, this technology cannot be used with a mechanical stylus or a glove hand eliminating a variety of other options of touch.

Electromagnetic Technology
The interactive technology relies on the array of wires embedded behind the solid board surface that interacts with a coil in the stylus tip that is able to get the precise location of the determined touch. The Pen based interactive white boards acts as a mouse-over device that is able to alter the electrical signals produced by the board. For instance, when close to the surface of the board, the mouse pointer will be sensed and when it is pressed against the board in one way, the board is able to activate a switch in the pen that signals a mouse click to the computer. When it is pressed in another way, contact with the board signals a click of the right mouse-button. Similar to the version of a graphics tablet used by professional digital artists and designers, an electromagnetic Interactive White Board (IWB) can emulate mouse actions accurately, it will not malfunction if a user leans on the board, and can it handle multiple inputs.