Sensors grow by more than 15% The future of domestic sales will play a leading role

As an electronic component widely used in modern electronic equipment, the annual growth rate of the sensor exceeds 15 and it is estimated that the output value will reach 120 billion yuan after 5 years. In 2013, equipment and system related companies in various countries around the world wanted to build a Trillion Sensors Universe that uses 1 trillion sensors each year. The Chinese sensor market has continued to grow in recent years, with growth rates exceeding 15%.

The process of industrial modernization in China and the electronic information industry continue to grow at a rapid rate of over 20%, driving the rapid rise of the sensor market. In recent years, the use of sensors in medical, environmental, and meteorological and other specialized electronic devices has also grown rapidly. The sensors used account for about 15% of the market share. The large demand for sensors in these industries has provided a good opportunity for development for the local sensor industry.

In the next five years, the average sales growth rate of the domestic sensor market will reach 31%. The main driving forces for the rapid growth of local sensor demand are from industrial electronics and automotive electronics, communications electronics, consumer electronics and specialized electronic devices. Industrial electronics and automotive electronics are the fastest-growing industries in the electronic information industry and are the areas in which sensors are used most, such as measuring various process variables, electrical and physical quantities, and traditional motion/positioning.

Although China's sensors have high market demand and rapid development, there are also problems such as low technical level, lack of types, and poor R&D capability. At present, there are 1,688 enterprises in China engaged in the development, production and application of sensors, but only MEMS development and production of more than 50, but the scale and application are smaller. Without sufficient application of scale, China's sensors have problems of low technology but high prices. They have lost their advantages in the international market, and have made the market more fierce.

Sensors and Smart Grid

Nowadays, sensors can be found in the smart grid field, and the smart grid is expected to become the largest user of sensors.

The smart sensor is a sensor with information processing function, with a microprocessor, has the ability to collect, process, and exchange information. It is a product of sensor integration and a microprocessor. The smart grid, like many smart systems, is not a single individual, but is the product of many devices and technologies working together. The cost of establishing most of the costs required for establishing a smart grid is in the terminal power distribution system and the terminal information system of the smart grid in the power facilities. The construction of network security software and hardware will invest a large part in the sensor network and directly drive the sensor market. At the same time, in order to meet the requirements for the construction of smart grids, sensors are also moving toward the direction of intelligence, systematization, networking, and digitalization.

Chinese market will become the main battlefield

The Chinese sensor market has continued to grow in recent years, with growth rates exceeding 15%. In 2012, the four major areas of China's sensor applications were industrial control, automotive electronics, communications electronics and consumer electronics, with industrial and automotive electronics products accounting for about 42% of the market.

According to the "12th Five-Year Plan" of China's "Electronic Components", it will invest 500 billion yuan during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, mainly focusing on the research and development and industrialization of new electronic components. These include MEMS-based sensors, gas sensors for environmental monitoring equipment, flow sensors, and humidity sensors. In addition, in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” of the Internet of Things released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in February 2012, the development of miniature and smart sensors and wireless sensor networks was also mentioned in the key project content. The next five years will be the five years of steady and rapid development of the Chinese sensor market. With annual growth momentum of more than 30%, the Chinese sensor market in 2014 is expected to reach more than RMB 120 billion.

As a main battlefield in the international battlefield, China’s development center in the Asia-Pacific region also reflects to a certain extent, whoever successfully captures the Chinese market means that it can successfully land on the sensor market and it will surely be divided in the sensor market. The biggest piece of cake.

China's future sensor industry may follow the following three directions:

First, with industrial control, automotive, communications, and environmental protection as the key service areas, with sensors, flexible components, optical components, and special circuits as the key targets, we will develop original technologies and products with independent intellectual property rights.

Second, to increase the variety, improve the quality and economic benefits as the main goal, accelerate the industrialization, so that the domestic sensor occupancy rate of the species reached 70% to 80%, up to 60% of high-end products.

Thirdly, based on MEMS technology, relying on integrated, intelligent, and networked technologies, the company will strengthen the development of manufacturing processes and new types of sensors and instrumentation components, and make the leading products reach and reach the advanced level of similar foreign products.