Status and development of sensor industry in 2013

 

    Since 2013, as the sensing front-end of the Internet of Things, sensors have been recognized as a high-tech industry with promising development at home and abroad. They have attracted worldwide attention due to their high technological content, good economic benefits, strong penetration ability, and broad market prospects. Driven by the booming electronic information industry market, it has formed a certain industrial foundation, and has made considerable progress in technological innovation, independent research and development, achievement transformation and competitiveness, and has made important contributions to the promotion of national economic development.

 

    Status: Low market concentration

 

    At present, China has a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises in the sensitive components and sensor industry, and the market concentration is relatively low. Compared with developed countries, there is a technology gap. Some core technologies and products still need to be imported, and the demand for localization is urgent. Domestic sensor manufacturers occupy the low-end market. From the perspective of development, domestic sensor manufacturers have three situations:

 

    First, the products of private or joint ventures occupy the low-end market. Traditional technology and equipment can meet the manufacturing requirements of most products, and the market is in a good state of development. Except for individual manufacturers that take chips produced abroad to domestically encapsulate related products and occupy a large market share in individual varieties, other high-end products are monopolized by foreign manufacturers.

 

    The second is that with the rise of emerging industries such as the Internet of Things, the sensor industry has become an important area that countries in the world compete for in the development of high and new technologies. In recent years, China's sensor industry has grown rapidly, and its application model has gradually matured. However, due to the low industrial grade and poor technological innovation capability, the domestic sensor industry presents a market pattern of low-end surplus and mid-to-high-end monopoly by foreign countries. The lag in sensor technology development has hampered the smooth advancement of domestic strategic emerging industries. The products of foreign-funded enterprises occupy the vast majority of the domestic high-end market and will continue to control the high-end market for a long time to come. This momentum will not be fundamentally changed in the short term.

 

    The third is that the development of state-owned enterprises is in a steady growth state. Generally speaking, it cannot keep up with the pace of the latest foreign technology development. Except for a few manufacturers, the overall gap is widening. This is due to the rapid development of sensor technology, the rapid updating of processes and manufacturing equipment, and the inability of many new equipment manufacturers in China to manufacture. And the unit price of the equipment ranges from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars. Most manufacturers rely on their own accumulation to make it difficult to purchase new equipment, which makes it impossible to keep up with the rapid development of foreign companies in many new technologies and new processes. pace.

 

    Development: the trend of wireless, the network decisive battle terminal

 

    The basic operation of the Internet of Things is the "sensation" of the front end, the "transmission" of the middle end, and the "counting" of the back end. Seizing these three links will clarify this invisible line. In the middle of this "transmission" part, some new trends have emerged this year, which has laid the foundation for the integration of anti-theft alarms in large IoT systems.

 

    With the gradual application of 3G, WIFI and other methods, the trend of wireless alarm products becomes more and more clear. Nowadays, in the alarm system applied in the market, the proportion of wireless products is increasing, reaching more than 30%. Some domestic manufacturers of traditional wired products have also launched multi-network alarm mainframes this year. Easy to use, has won the favor of many new and old customers.

 

    Networking has become another major direction of alarm products. As alarm products closely connected to people's lives, many networked products have also been launched. The development of IPC is relatively mature. This product is compatible with the dual protection of monitoring and alarm, and can realize remote monitoring and storage through the Internet, realizing the dream of the world. The development of IPC has also brought more end consumers into contact with the alarm system. If the alarm companies can go one step further on the platform for receiving alarms and the density of information, the future prospect of IPC is very promising.

 

    In order to adapt to the pace of network development, TCP / IP-based products have become the direction of alarm systems. For example, the IP anti-theft host system introduced by some manufacturers this year adopts IP technology, uses the computer as the main body of operation, and can share the TCP / IP network with other devices, which greatly saves installation costs; through special software detection, automatic management of the last device of the alarm system The operation situation greatly facilitates the user's management and use.

 

    For international well-known alarm brands, wireless and network has been the key development direction in recent years. Internationally well-known companies have gradually increased TCP / IP, GSM, GPRS and other communication methods, and some also support mobile terminal control.