Case Study: Gira Giersiepen GmbH & Co. KG achieves intuitive, efficient meetings and standardized presentations with SMART Technologies' SMART Board interactive whiteboards

Intuitive Meeting Room Technology Meets Intelligent Building Technology

Gira Giersiepen GmbH & Co. KG is a 120-year-old German maker of switches and intelligent building systems that employs about 900 people in Radevormwald. Facing cluttered, shadow-prone overhead projectors and time-consuming flipchart capture, the company needed a presentation tool that supported its meeting protocols and integrated with common applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Gira equipped all 12 meeting rooms with SMART Board 685 interactive whiteboards on height‑adjustable mounts, standardizing technology and enabling one‑touch starts, direct annotation of circuit diagrams, USB file access and easy saving/sharing of notes. The result: faster, more productive meetings, seamless staff adoption, and clear alignment with corporate communication and protocol standards.

Gira Giersiepen GmbH & Co. KG