In recent years, the five trends including intelligentization, mobilization, miniaturization, integration, and diversification have become important trends in sensor development. At the same time, wearable applications, unmanned driving, medical and health monitoring, and industrial control applications have made sensors enter a period of rapid development.
Sensors and Smart Grid
Nowadays, sensors can be found in the smart grid field, and the smart grid is expected to become the largest user of sensors.
The smart sensor is a sensor with information processing function, with a microprocessor, has the ability to collect, process, and exchange information. It is a product of sensor integration and a microprocessor. The smart grid, like many smart systems, is not a single individual, but a product of many devices and technologies. The cost of establishing most of the costs required for establishing a smart grid is in the terminal power distribution system and the terminal information system of the smart grid in the power facilities. The construction of network security software and hardware will invest a large part in the sensor network and directly drive the sensor market. At the same time, in order to meet the requirements for the construction of smart grids, sensors are also moving toward the direction of intelligence, systematization, networking, and digitalization.
In the development of smart grids, the use of traditional sensors has been unable to quickly and directly measure and monitor the quality and fault location of certain power products. The use of smart sensors can be directly measured, measuring product quality indicators, and faults (such as temperature, pressure, flow). With the gradual development of the smart grid, it will also stimulate the expansion of the sensor market space.
The development of the sensor is vast
As an electronic component widely used in modern electronic devices, the annual growth rate of the sensor exceeds 15 and it is estimated that the output value will reach 120 billion yuan after 5 years. In 2013, new social trends emerged in the field of sensors. Companies and system-related companies around the world wanted to establish a society that uses 1 trillion sensors each year.