Don't look at the recent three major operators and Internet giants, and compete around the IoT networking technology standards. In many circles, they are still some distance away from the first bucket of gold.

The most likely to see huge returns in the IoT industry chain are sensor manufacturers represented by STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Infineon and others.

The industry predicts that with the development of the Internet of Things industry, the Internet of Things sensor market will increase by more than 300% in the next 10 years.

Among them, the Asia-Pacific region has the highest compound annual growth rate. However, Chinese sensor manufacturers such as Goer shares and AAC Technologies want to grab a bigger market from the European and American giants who master the core technology, and must also have new requirements for high-precision positioning. sensitive.

Sensor manufacturers first Nuggets can increase 300% in 5 years

Just as the mobile Internet market Boxing has promoted the development of the semiconductor industry, the expansion of the Internet of Things market has greatly benefited the sensor industry.

The latest research report shows that the global IoT sensor market is expected to maintain a compound annual growth rate of 33.6% between 2018 and 2023, and the overall market revenue will increase from 5.28 billion US dollars to 22.48 billion US dollars.

"The ever-expanding use of IoT devices has increased the investment of manufacturers, breaking through bottlenecks in sensor size and cost, thus greatly improving sensor integration." An industry engineer said that various new and mature technologies are also on the market. Boosting, such as the introduction of 3GPP Release 13 and Release 14, has improved device communication performance, while the introduction of real-time computing capabilities has enhanced IoT data collection capabilities.

Increasingly powerful sensors are driving more and more IoT applications. Among them, the vertical industrial IoT market still accounts for the largest share of the IoT sensor market.

The use of various sensors effectively supports the factory for predictive maintenance, full process quality monitoring and new feature stacking. Various types of unmanned or remotely driven terminals are also being used for a large number of sensors such as gyroscopes and accelerometers to meet the requirements of vehicle positioning navigation and path planning.

The industry believes that sensors currently widely used in industrial products will soon enter the consumer goods field.

Rapid growth in the Asia-Pacific market

The global differentiation of the sensor market is basically in line with the IoT industry.

North America remains the largest market for IoT sensors. However, with the promotion of IoT in industrial production, urban construction and consumer-grade terminals, the Asia Pacific sensor market is believed to maintain its highest compound annual growth rate between 2018 and 2023.

This argument has made the Chinese people excited, but the industry also pointed out that in order to rise in the market where the sensor giants in Europe and the United States master the core technology, Gore shares, AAC Technologies, Shendi Semiconductor, Mattel Technology and other Chinese sensor manufacturers even Internet-based service providers are more sensitive to all kinds of new demands.

According to the latest research by market consulting firm MarketsandMarkets, gyro sensors are expected to maintain the highest growth rate in all sensors for the next five years due to the increasing demand for applications such as satellite positioning and navigation. The use of sensors to achieve precise positioning of terminals is becoming a new outlet.

As a result of this trend, the world's leading precision location service company Chihiro location on the one hand vigorously build the national Beidou ground-based augmentation system "one national network", and strive to promote the centimeter-level positioning service to achieve full coverage of mainland China by the end of 2018; On the one hand, we continue to strengthen cooperation with hardware manufacturers and integrate more powerful sensors to make accurate positioning services truly fall into IoT applications.

In order to break through the traditional satellite positioning bottleneck, Chihiro location independently developed the "multi-sensor fusion positioning algorithm", combining the inertial navigation algorithm with various GNSS positioning algorithms, so that the device can be in the satellite signal occlusion area, through the built-in gyro, accelerometer and other precision Complete the motion trajectory calculation.

If the majority of sensor manufacturers can cooperate with Chihiro location to promote the popularization of precision positioning applications, they will surely seize the opportunity in the future market competition.