The sensor market is ushered in a breakthrough in the development of "smart home" is an important pusher

In recent years, smart homes have developed rapidly, and more and more smart technologies are being integrated into all aspects of this field. As the core of the control system, the sensor, with its own unique advantages, is also facing a breakthrough development.

With the promotion of intelligent technology, the smart home field has achieved rapid development, and more and more enterprises have entered. In the process of development, some new technologies have gradually penetrated into all aspects of the smart home field. Among them, the sensor has its own unique advantages and penetrates into the “chord” of the entire control system, which is of great significance to the rapid development of smart homes.

For smart home systems, the application of sensing technology can capture the environmental changes within the home more intuitively and in real time. Through the uploading and analysis of big data, it can automatically adjust and respond to the internal devices of the home to help the smart home function. The intelligent remote control property is developed into a real smart home that automatically runs according to human behavior. Sensing technology with higher precision and feature set will further enhance the application experience of smart home systems and products.

Smart home is a systematic product concept. The sensor is a bridge that combines traditional household equipment such as switches, panels, lamps, curtain motors, etc. Through a variety of sensors, we can perfectly realize the situation of smart homes, and users can truly experience the smart home brings pleasure. Therefore, the application of sensing technology adds a new "skill" to the traditional device function, which can be more intelligent.

From the perspective of a broad sense of architecture, smart home devices are mainly used in smart buildings. The intelligent building industry has great potential for development and is considered to be a very important industry in China's economic development. Its industrial driving role is not to be underestimated. According to statistics, the proportion of smart buildings in the United States to new buildings is 70%, and that in Japan is 60%. In 2015, China's smart buildings accounted for about 30% of new buildings.

According to Yole's forecast, the smart sensor and smart building-related sensor market will grow to $1.73 billion by 2022. Accordingly, subscription and service-related sales from sensor data applications are expected to grow to $11 billion. .

Sensor innovation for smart home applications will also boost voice-activated personal assistant growth. For example, in 2016, Amazon has sold 4 million Alexa voice assistant systems, which shipped only 1 million units in December 2016.

Although the smart home and smart building markets have very bright prospects based on the development of society, Yole's MEMS and sensor teams have proposed market and technical barriers that currently affect industry growth. Yole recently released a market and technology research report titled "Sensors and Sensing Modules in Smart Homes and Smart Buildings," which details connected home, building and office applications. In this report, Yole's research is based on sensor and sensor module levels and provides an in-depth analysis of relevant value chains, infrastructure and vendors.

At present, there are two major problems in the domestic sensor market: First, most of the sensor products are functionally independent, such as sound sensing, temperature sensing, humidity sensing, illumination sensing, infrared displacement sensing, etc. The disadvantage is that the function is too scattered. If multiple sensing functions are needed, multiple sensors need to be installed, which increases the burden of installation and use of the user. Second, most of the current sensor products in China do not really participate in the connection of the Internet of Things. Most smart home systems are not built on sensor technology and big data, but are similar to the concept of a smart remote.

However, with the further development of intelligent sensor technology and the country's continuous development of strategies and policies that are conducive to the development of the sensor industry, the rapid development of the application system market throughout the year and the continuous promotion of emerging technologies have become favorable factors for sensor development. In the future development, intelligent sensors will be further extended to basic research fields such as chemistry, electromagnetics, optics and nuclear physics. It is foreseeable that the emerging intelligent sensors will play an increasingly important role in various fields related to the people's livelihood.

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