The annual usage of sensors or ultra-trillion yuan

Sensors are the basic products in the electronic information equipment manufacturing industry and are the key components in the development of new electronic components. The sensor industry is recognized as a promising high-tech industry at home and abroad, and is attracting worldwide attention for its high technological content, good economic returns, strong penetration capabilities, and broad market prospects. Driven by the booming electronic information industry market, China's sensors have formed a certain industrial base and have made great progress in technological innovation, independent research and development, results transformation and competitiveness, and made important contributions to the promotion of national economic development. .

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. “Planning” clearly lists the products and technologies that will be developed in the next five years, including new chip-type, miniaturized, integrated, and highly reliable electronic component products that meet the needs of the development of the new generation of electronic whole machines; meeting China’s new traffic equipment manufacturing industry. High-quality and critical electronic components for supporting needs; electronic components and environmental protection electronic components for energy-saving and environmental protection devices; electronic components for next-generation communication technologies; electronic components for new energy and smart grid industries; new electronic components Materials and equipment.

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.

The reason why the sensor revolution receives attention

First, the use of electronic components such as sensors is biased toward smart phones and feature phones. The growth of electronic components depends on specific application products, which are prone to malpractices such as supply and demand imbalances. The industry hopes to open up new sources of growth beyond consumer products where demand and price changes are fierce.

Second, the potential demand for sensors in the social infrastructure sector has skyrocketed. In order to optimally manage and maintain the aging infrastructure, there is a global need to use sensors and ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies). Even in areas such as agriculture, where primary industries, distribution, and logistics do not promote high-tech, the demand for sensors is increasing in order to increase production efficiency and energy efficiency. There are more and more users of sensor reserve troops.

Third, the ICT industry wants to use more digital data. The data obtained with sensors will increase the computational requirements and communication needs. Moreover, if a large amount of sensor data is combined with open data, large data analysis using IoT and M2M will generate more valuable data.

Eight trends in the sensor industry

First, the sensor industrialization development model: to accelerate the formation of a one-stop industrial development model from sensor research and development to large-scale production, take the leap-forward development path of independent innovation and international cooperation, making China become a world leader in sensor production.

Second, the structure of the sensor product is to be comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable. Product varieties should be inclined to high technology and high added value, especially to fill the "blank" varieties.

Third, the company's production scale (annual production capacity) to scale economies or suitable for scale economy development. The production scale of a wide range of general-purpose sensors will be measured in hundreds of millions. The production scale of some mid-range sensors will be measured at an annual output of 10 million (including more); and the production scale of some high-grade sensors and special sensors will be an annual output. Hundreds of thousands to several million dollars.

Fourth, the production pattern has developed toward specialization. The connotation of specialized production is: 1. The production of sensor types is small and precise; 2. The production of a certain type of sensor products required by a certain application field is specialized to obtain a higher market share; 3. The specialization of each sensor company Cooperative production.

Fifth, the development of sensor production technology to automation. The variety and variety of sensors and the variety of sensitive materials used determine the diversity and complexity of sensor manufacturing technology. Looking at the overview of the current sensor process line, most of the processes have achieved single-machine automation, but there are still many difficulties in full automation from the production process. It is still necessary to extensively adopt CAD, CAM, and advanced automation equipment and industrial robots to achieve breakthroughs.

6. The key technological transformation of an enterprise should be strengthened from the dependence on imported technology to the digestion and absorption of imported technology and the direction of independent innovation.

VII. The business operations must speed up the internationalization of the domestic market and the foreign market combined with the domestic market to accelerate development.

VIII. The corporate structure will develop toward the pattern of “big, medium, and small concurrently” and “grouped and specialized production coexist”.