Mid IR Sensors: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2016 to 2022

SKU ID : WGR- 12990185

Publishing Date : 11-Jul-2016

No. of pages : 885

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  • Next generation Mid IR Sensors are leveraging new technology. The 2016 study has 885 pages, 390 tables and figures. Worldwide mid IR sensor markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the Internet of things creates demand for more and more sensors.

    Everything needs a sensor to be connected to the Internet and available to smart phone apps. Mid IR sensors can measure chemical composition of materials and gas. The efficiency is unmatched by any other technology; cost is increasingly competitive. Mid IR is extending use beyond military applications to commercial systems, including the Internet of things where sensors become part of network systems.

    Mid IR sensors are the base of the Internet of Things initiatives, they form the building blocks for all different types of imaging and controls. Drones, robots, industrial robots, machines, cameras, buildings, fire departments, traffic lights, traffic control, the military, the border patrol, law enforcement, healthcare, asthma treatment, virtually everyone will increasingly use mid IR sensors.

    The Internet of Things (IoT) does not work without sensors, mid IR sensors provide a significant aspect of modern visualization and sensing. Drones use mid IR sensors for cameras and for navigation. Robots use mid IR cameras for navigation. The intelligence community has used this mid IR sensor technology for a long time and the technology is now gaining traction in the commercial markets.

    Mid IR sensors can measure chemical composition of materials and gas. The efficiency is unmatched by any other technology; cost is increasingly competitive. Mid IR has extended use beyond military applications to commercial systems, including the Internet of things where sensors become part of network systems.

    Mid-IR QCL systems have achieved price performance levels that are increasingly attractive. Vendors bring sensing capabilities to a broad range of applications, including: spectroscopic and bio-medical imaging; materials characterization; standoff explosive detection; microscopy; and non-destructive testing. Spectroscopy and imaging measurements are easier, faster and more cost-effective leveraging advances in mid IR sensing.

    Mid-infrared sensors and imaging applications depend on quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology. Daylight Solutions quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology has been delivered to more systems for more customers in more applications than all other QCL-based solutions combined. Advances in QC laser technology and spectrometer hardware are combined with spectroscopic techniques. Intra pulse spectroscopy and similar techniques provide a major step change in sensitivity, speed of operation, fingerprinting capability, size and cost. They offer a major improvement on methods of gas detection. Recent advances in spectrometer hardware relate to QC gas sensors.

    Advances exploit recent technological advances including miniaturized integrated electronic systems, plug and play interfaces and micro optics. These will progressively replace unwieldy, fragile and expensive instrumentation.

    The lasing wavelength for QCL's is determined by the choice of semiconductor material. By adjusting the physical thickness of the semiconductor layers new functionality is achieved. This removes the material barriers associated with conventional semiconductor laser technology.

    An infrared spectroscopic laser source has no need for cryogenic cooling, provides high output powers, has large spectral coverage, provides excellent spectral quality, and has good tunability. The removal of the noise floor provides competitive advantage because it can be implemented without the need of complex fringe removal techniques. It can be done without expensive optical isolators. The feature that allows manageable removal of the noise floor enables the laboratory performance of technology to be commercialized.

    Mid IR analyzers in process control are expected to save trillions of Btus annually in the petrochemical sector. Process control and environmental monitoring potential applications are evolving for this technology.

    Examples of mid IR applications follow.

    Combustion emissions analysis
    Fugitive emissions control
    Contraband detection
    Improved safety conditions for plant workers
    On-site detection of chemicals

    Medical applications include human breath monitoring, glucose sensing, cancer detection and diagnostics, eye surgery, and environmental health monitoring. Medical and industrial monitoring utilizes trace detection of benzene, toluene or xylene. Medical applications account for a growing mid-IR laser market. The medical area is evolving in both diagnostics and treatment. Improved diagnostics are made possible through photonic technologies.

    Mid IR sensors deliver a better understanding of disease: Optical molecular imaging is anticipated to be significant.

    Mid IR sensors hold the possibility of making medicine much more advanced because of the visibility into patient conditions that will be possible. As visibility into patient condition is refined, so also remedies will be much more refined. Energy efficiency and clean, renewable energy will mean a stronger economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy independence. Working with a wide array of state, community, industry, and university partners, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy invests in a diverse set of energy technologies.

    Mid-IR sensor systems have achieved price to performance levels adequate to assure rapid adoption. Capabilities address a broad range of applications, including: location of people as targets, spectroscopic and bio-medical imaging; materials characterization; standoff explosive detection; microscopy; non-destructive testing. Spectroscopy, and imaging measurements. These are easier, faster, and cost-effective.

    Military applications account for a significant portion of mid IR sensor markets. The remaining part of revenue comes from CO2 sensors, building sensors, and units for a range of different markets. Markets at $4.19 billion in 2015 are anticipated to reach $30 billion by 2022 as price performance increases and unit costs decrease from $3,000 per unit to $2,000 per high end unit. $300 per mid-range sensor has dropped to $200. $8 has dropped to $6 per unit providing price points that make the sensors affordable. or less per unit on average drive further interest from commercial buyers.

    The decrease in size of units from bench size devices to portable units makes them more useful across the board in every industry.

    Companies Profiled

    Market Leaders

    United Technologies / Kidde Spectris / Omega
    GE / Senseair
    FLIR
    Raytheon
    Lockheed Martin
    MKS / Newport
    BAE
    Daylight Solutions
    Danaher / Raytek
    II-VI / Marlow
    Sick AG
    Emerson / Cascade Technologies
    Sofradir
    Bosch
    Micro-Epsilon
    Finmeccanica / SELEX Galileo
    Hamamatsu
    Johnson Controls
    IPG Photonics
    Block Engineering

    Market Participants

    AdTechoptics
    Aerocrine
    Alpes Lasers / ALTechnologies
    Block Engineering
    Bosch
    Acuity Brands
    Advanced Photonix
    Agiltron / SensArrayInfrared
    Cymbet
    Circassia / Aerocrine
    Danaher Acquires Raytek
    Digi International
    Linear Control/Dust Networks
    EnOcean GmbH
    Ekips Technologies
    Elliot Scientific
    Finmeccanica
    SELEX Galileo Inc.
    Ferro Solutions
    Flexible Electronics Concepts
    Fortive 730
    General Electric (GE)
    Hamamatsu
    II-VI incorporated / Marlow Industries
    ILX Lightwave
    IPG Photonics
    Sensor Products
    Johnson Controls
    JonDeTech
    Kidde Products Limited / Airsense Technology
    Lockheed-Martin
    M Squared
    MIRTHE (Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment) National Science Foundation
    Mirthe Mid IR Sensor Breath Analyzers
    Marktech Optoelectronics
    Mitre
    Nanophase Technologies
    Opto Solutions
    Opto Diode Corporation
    Opto Solutions
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    PNNL Electronics and Systems Integration
    Physical Sciences
    Power Technology
    Sensor Switch
    SenseAir
    Sentinel Photonics
    Sick AG
    Sofradir
    Spectris / Omega Engineering
    Structured Materials Industries
    Telops
    Thorlabs
    United Technologies
    Kidde Products Limited / AirSense Technology
    VIASPACE / Ionfinity
    Vigo System S.A.
    Xenics Sentinel Photonics
    Thermo Fischer Scientific / NovaWave Technologies
    VIASPACE / Ionfinity

    Key Topics

    Mid Infrared (IR) Sensors
    Electro-magnetic spectrum
    QC laser technology
    Spectrometer hardware
    Wireless Sensor Network
    Wireless Nodes
    Homeland security
    Military communications
    Infrared countermeasures
    Chemical warfare agent detection
    Explosives detection
    Medical diagnostics
    Industrial process controls
    Remote gas leak detection
    Pollution monitoring
    Real-time combustion controls
    Mid IR sensor
    Microcontroller
    Energy Harvesting
    Vibration-Based Wireless Energy
    Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters
    Thermoelectrics
    Generating Power From Heat
    Smart Computing
    Wireless Sensor Networks
    Smart Cities
    Smart Buildings
    Military Remote Energy Applications
    Off-Grid Special Sensors
    Pipeline Monitoring
    Navigational aids
    Thermoelectric cooling
    Automotive Sensors
    Sensor Lighting
    Manganese dioxide
    Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology Graphene
    Self-assembly, Nanostructured Thin Films
    Microgenerator Sensors
    Vibration Sensors
    Piezoelectricity
    Solid State Technology
    Microgenerator
    Power Source Of Sensor
    Sensor node

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