Sensors for small and large companies

Market gap "The current domestic sensor industry's flaw is: large companies are reluctant to do, small companies can not do it." The Ming Dynasty pointed out that because each area needs to be tailor-made sensors, although there is a market demand, but the market is not large Therefore, the technical input cost of the sensor manufacturers is too high; on the contrary, the sensor product technology is based on new sensitive materials, nanotechnology, biotechnology, biomimetic technology, new energy storage technologies and very low energy consumption technologies, but small enterprises do not have This technical ability.

"Because there is no large-scale application, domestic sensor products generally have the contradiction of low technology level and high price." Ming Dynasty said.

According to data from the Institute of Sensing Industry, the world sensor market capacity in 2008 was about US$45.6 billion. The world sensor market is expected to reach more than US$66 billion in 2010. The world is now about 40 countries engaged in the development and production of sensors, research and development, production units have more than 5,000, more than 20,000 products.

"Although there are 1,688 enterprises in the country engaged in the development, production and application of sensors, of which more than 50 are engaged in the development and production of MEMS, but the scale and application areas are small." Zhang Xiaofei pointed out that in the international market, Germany, Companies in old industrial countries such as Japan, the United States, and Russia dominated the sensor market. Many manufacturers have achieved large-scale production. Some companies have annual production capacities of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. In contrast, the application range of Chinese sensors is narrow, and more applications still remain in basic application fields such as industrial measurement and control.

Technical shortcomings At present, Beijing's key application research center for Internet of Things was established. 11 companies and companies including Coast Sensing participated in the project and are preparing to make joint operations to compensate for the shortcomings of the domestic sensing industry. "The research center will adopt a corporatization operation, and 11 units will raise at least 50 million yuan in operating funds. The rest of the funding gap will be applied for financial subsidies from the state and local governments." The Ming Dynasty all said that if the domestic sensing companies are not united, Under the current market size, it is difficult to make major breakthroughs in a short period of time.

Perhaps the figures can better prove the argument of the Ming Dynasty.

According to statistics from the senior industry sensor, in 2009, the revenue of the sensor business, China Labor Technology (000988.SZ) was RMB 140 million, and Dali Technology (002214.SZ) was RMB 173 million. Goer acoustics (002241.SZ) was 120 million yuan, Guanglu digital test (002175.SZ) was 110 million yuan, Hanwei Electronics (300007.SZ) was 130 million yuan, and aerospace electromechanical (600151.SH) was only tens of millions of yuan.

In 2009, the revenue of RFID (electronic label) business was 240 million yuan for Yuanwanggu (002161.SZ), 400 million yuan for the New World (000997.SZ), and 200 million yuan for Tongfang (600100.SH). Cinda (000701.SZ) was 300 million yuan and Shanghai Belling (600171.SH) was 500 million yuan.

“There are about 30 listed companies in the IoT related business in China. The number is relatively small compared to other industries, but each volume is not large.” Zhang Xiaofei, director of the China Sensing Industry Research Center, points out that the key to the future of the Internet of Things lies in RFID and sensors. In the field of embedded software and data transmission calculations, domestic companies have not been monopolized in certain fields. In terms of RFID technology, the United States is the only one with its patent applications exceeding the sum of regional patent applications filed by the European Union, the World Intellectual Property Organization, Japan, and mainland China. The number of patents accounts for 53% of the total; and the total number of RFID companies in China About 100 or so, but the general lack of key core technologies.

"And Japan and Europe have absolute advantages in the sensor technology. The domestic high-end sensor market basically relies on imports." Zhang Xiaofei said. The Ming Dynasty also said that domestic energy companies and petrochemical companies are all large-scale sensors, but they are imported in batches. Because the level of sensor products of domestic companies cannot meet the requirements of these large customers.

However, according to Chen Liang's ideal state, it is still difficult to achieve in the Mainland. The scale and application scope of the domestic sensor industry are still at the initial stage of industrial development. The Internet of Things projects that have been implemented are all demonstration projects such as bird monitoring in Qinghai Lake and water environment monitoring in Taihu Lake.

"To fully apply the Internet of Things to the fields of logistics, medical care, environment, industry and agriculture, the price of sensors and sensor chips can only be 1/10 or 1/100 now." Beijing Kunlun Coast Sensing Technology Center (hereinafter referred to as " Coast Sensing, the chief engineer of the Ming Dynasty, pointed out to the "First Financial Daily" yesterday that the current domestic sensor industry is actually stuck in a "dead circle" where the market application scale is too small and the sensor manufacturers lack the motivation to develop.