Small sensors have become the foundation and support for a new generation of information technology. At present, the tide of Industry 4.0 has swept the world. Many enterprises are vigorously carrying out industrial intelligent upgrading and upgrading to adapt to the new changes in the new era. Sensors are an important part of this industry upgrade wave.

A sensor is a multi-element integrated circuit with information acquisition, information processing, information exchange, and information storage functions. It is a system-level product that integrates a sensor chip, a communication chip, a microprocessor, a driver, and a software algorithm. The basic, leading and strategic industries of the overall development of the industry and national economic security.

Ozon's self-developed humidity sensor chip wafer

With the rapid development of next-generation information technologies such as industrial Internet, big data, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, the sensor application market is experiencing explosive growth. According to market research institutions, China's sensor market will reach 166 billion yuan in 2019. The compound annual growth rate will be 11.65% in the next five years (2019-2023) and 258 billion yuan in 2023.

Driven by policies and markets, China's sensor industry is becoming more and more ecological, and key enterprises such as design, manufacturing, packaging and testing have backbone enterprises. At present, there are nearly 2,000 related companies engaged in sensor research, including nearly 30 listed companies. All kinds of sensor products basically meet the domestic market demand.

However, due to the late start, China's sensor industry still faces problems such as insufficient supply of high-end sensor products, weak technological innovation capability, and lack of coordination between scientific research and production. The resulting industrial safety and information security challenges cannot be ignored.

"Don't say it in 20 years. 'At that time, we didn't grasp the basics at that time." In the view of Yang Xueshan, former deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and honorary chairman of the China Sensors and Internet of Things Industry Alliance, the sensor is small, but the importance is not However, speeding up the development of China's sensor industry is the key to realizing industrial intelligence.

Aosong's self-developed temperature and humidity sensor - AHT10

Cultivate and expand China's sensor industry, improve sensor technology innovation capability and manufacturing level, and shorten the gap with advanced foreign countries. The country has already accurately arranged. A series of national policies such as the ¡°13th Five-Year National Science and Technology Innovation Plan¡±, ¡°Accelerating the Action Plan for Accelerating the Development of Sensors and Intelligent Instrumentation Industry¡±, and ¡°Outline for the Development of National IC Industry¡± pointed out that the focus is on strengthening the research and development of new sensors. Enhance the application of sensor technology in intelligent manufacturing systems, enhance the innovation capability and international competitiveness of the sensor and intelligent instrumentation industry.

Shen Liping, former deputy chief designer of China¡¯s manned spaceflight project and academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), suggested: ¡°Like the development of chip technology, we must focus on the development, preparation and application of advanced sensing technology.¡± In July 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially approved the National Intelligent Sensor Innovation Center. The Innovation Center is dedicated to research and development platforms for key common technologies and device structures in sensors, enabling R&D supply, transfer diffusion and first commercialization.

In addition to the national level, local governments are also vigorously supporting the development of the sensor industry, rapidly cultivating the sensor industry innovation ecosystem, strengthening the support capabilities for instrumentation, intelligent equipment, new display and other advantageous industries, and using sensors and the Internet of Things to boost big data intelligence. Industrial Development. Founded in September 2003, Guangzhou Aosong Electronics Co., Ltd. is the first independent research and development enterprise of humidity sensors in China. It is currently the leading manufacturer of sensors and chips for the application of MEMS semiconductor process technology. Aosong is also the only vertically integrated manufacturing (IDM) enterprise in the MEMS field in Guangdong Province that integrates R&D, design, production and sales.

At the end of 2016, the Osong R&D Technology Center was rated as ¡°Guangzhou Enterprise Research and Development Organization¡± by the Municipal Science and Technology Commission. At the end of 2018, it was rated as ¡°Guangdong Province MEMS Sensor Engineering Technology Research Center¡± by the Provincial Science and Technology Department. At the end of 2018, the company's self-developed R&D project ¡°Absolute Humidity Sensor¡± project was successfully evaluated by the experts of the ¡°Guangzhou Development Zone Entrepreneur Leading Talents¡± application project. The person in charge of the company was named ¡°Guangdong Development Zone Entrepreneur Leading Talent¡±.

At the beginning of its establishment, Osong has a long-term vision and adheres to the philosophy of ¡°leading technology and customer first¡±. It has cooperated with many domestic and foreign scientific research institutions, institutes and experts in polymer materials and professors for a long time to form a group of doctoral backgrounds. The R&D team of senior experts and R&D engineers in the industry has a ¡°Technology Center¡± inside. At present, there are more than 50 R&D technicians. The R&D technology center is equipped with various laboratories and various production lines, equipped with advanced projection lithography machine, ion implanter, deep silicon etching machine, optical coating machine, LPCVD, PECVD, scanning electron microscope, high precision humidity standard instrument. And other equipment. R&D expenditures exceeding 20% of sales revenue are invested each year to ensure effective development of development projects. The current research and development laboratory area is over 10,000 square meters. In the past three years, nearly 20 development and research projects have been developed, all of which have formed scientific and technological achievements and successfully transformed the results. At the same time, they have applied for more than 50 patent intellectual property rights such as inventions, utility models and software copyrights.

Ozon's self-developed sensor chip

Aosheng provides a variety of high-performance sensor strategies for global customers. It has long been focusing on independent research and development and manufacturing of MEMS sensor chips. It has launched series of ¡°temperature and humidity sensors¡±, ¡°gas sensors¡±, ¡°flow sensors¡± and ¡°absolute humidity sensors¡±. All the products have passed the national laboratory testing and certification. The humidity sensor products have ended the history of China's humidity measurement core components completely dependent on imports, filling the gaps in domestic products and competing for international products with equal or higher products. market. Aosong has passed ISO9001:2015, IATF16949:2016 international quality system certification, and its products fully comply with EU RoHS requirements and CE certification. Aosong's various intelligent sensor products have been widely used in aviation, aerospace, military, transportation, communications, chemical, meteorological, medical, agricultural, home appliances, industrial manufacturing and other fields. The customer base covers domestic and foreign first-line home appliance brands such as Whirlpool, Electrolux, Daikin, Haier and Midea.

Innovation leads, technology fights! Ingenuity is carved and made! Aosong people have always adhered to "leading technology, high quality and efficiency, customer first, compliance and compliance", and work together with customers to make positive contributions to the development of China's Internet of Things.

When the industry moves toward intelligence and everything moves toward interconnection, it is inseparable from sensor support. In the future, the market, technology and policies will drive the rapid development of China's sensor industry, and the prospects are clear.