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Why sensors have mastered the future of the Internet of Things
2025-04-03
Large foreign manufacturers mainly put sensor technology into industrial processes, while China can make this technology closer to life. Transportation, medical care, rescue, and wearable devices are all areas worth investing in. The key to the development of the Internet of Things lies in the collaboration and information transmission between machines, and sensors play an indispensable role in these machine networks and the longer-term interconnected world.
If the Internet of Things wants to go far, it depends on the degree of development of sensors. Whether it is information collaboration, measurement, analysis, and control between machines, sensors must be used to collect information.
Whoever masters the sensor will master the future of the Internet of Things.
At the same time, if China wants to gain a place in the Internet of Things or even the Industrial Internet of Things, sensors are the most suitable entry point for China. Past experience in the manufacturing and semiconductor industries will effectively help China gain a place in the future of the Internet of Things.
Without sensors to detect important production data such as pressure, location, and temperature, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) would not develop as it is today. Basically, the growth of the Industrial Internet of Things and Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) is accompanied by the expansion of the sensor market, and the innovation and R&D of sensor technology will also stimulate the potential and development of the Internet of Things industry.
Sensors are still dominated by industrial industries, occupying 31% of the market
The demand for sensors in the industrial and automation industries remains high
The use of sensors in the automation industry is increasing. For example, connected cars and self-driving cars have a high demand for sensors, accounting for 21% of the sensor market; the medical industry's demand for sensors has also increased, and they rely on sensors. Monitoring and medical diagnosis of patients' health status currently accounts for 12% of the sensor market. However, the industry that occupies the most in this market is still the industry, which directly accounts for 31%.
Industrial applications usually focus on the production of high-end products rather than high-volume production, so the demand for sensors is biased towards reliable, accurate and small devices in harsh working environments. As the connection and collaboration between machines (Machine-to-Machine, M2M) become more and more sophisticated, the task of sensors has evolved from passive monitoring to active detection, preventive maintenance, asset control, and data analysis to help increase production efficiency.
In the field of automated processes, systems such as process control, process safety, job management, and asset utilization all require the use of sensors to measure, analyze, and control system settings. Integrating multiple sensor technologies with software analysis tools will promote faster and more accurate information dissemination of production efficiency, reliability and safety. Finally, this industry will usher in a cost-optimized working environment that can produce high-end products.
Now, in order to grasp this trend, American, British and European companies are actively cooperating with technology companies to acquire companies specializing in real-time data management, asset management and sensor equipment. Mergers and acquisitions between companies are forming in the sensor market. The whirlwind is because it can not be restricted by certain barriers to entry. Traditional sensor companies are also willing to cooperate with companies in the new industry sector, and technology manufacturers have also jumped into this sensor war.
Such a trend of sensor market mergers and acquisitions will key us lead to a more interconnected and more automated world than today. In several major industries, such as manufacturing and the Internet of Things, as the degree of automation increases, the use of sensors will become more popular. Such high market demand and the prospect of unlimited business opportunities will attract more people to join the market.
Examples of sensors assisting smart factories: using laser sensors to automatically detect liquids, saving a lot of time and cost!
When computer services and data are pushed up to the cloud, the structural evolution of the Internet of Things will also be based on devices. Not only does the cloud contain intelligence, but even devices have an extra brain that can work independently. In the industry, there are already many innovative methods that use sensors to manage production processes and optimize production efficiency.
The real-time elevation measurement, volume measurement, and quality measurement of powder and bulk solids in large vessels, barrels, and silos have always been one of the worries of the industry. To manage assets and processes, very precise measurement results are required. However, most of the time the owners of these substances have to manually measure these data. Despite the assistance of laser technology, the process must be completely stopped and it took several hours. got the answer.
However, with the introduction of the 5708 scanner, the industry can perform these measurements without interruption. Even if it is difficult to measure fly ash or low-dielectric materials with other technologies, the data can be obtained through the sensor. This scanner can even simulate the irregular surface of solid materials, and can provide minimum and maximum elevation, total volume, and a 3D visualization model.
On the other hand, sensors must also be relied on for long-distance and wide-range temperature control. The DTSX3000 optical fiber inspection technology designed by Yokogawa solves this problem. Traditional technology relies on multiple surveillance cameras, thermocouples, resistance temperature detectors or other temperature sensors. These technological devices are troublesome to operate, install or maintain. The sensor developed by Yokogawa uses each meter as a space unit and can measure up to 50 kilometers of temperature along the fiber optic network.
The development of some sensors has faintly a shadow of the future world. For example, an Israeli company has developed the world's first nanotechnology "electronic nose" that can smell national security threats such as bombs, biological weapons, and toxins, and can detect even the smallest amount of ingredients. The company’s CEO, Dr. Ricardo Osiroff, said that this nano-sensor, which can be called a "lab on a chip," can detect different kinds of chemical threats, such as explosives, biological weapons, etc., from gas, liquid, and solid samples, with great efficiency. Exceeding the existing technology, it is also completely better than the capabilities of drug detection dogs or other drug detection animals.
The key to the development of the Internet of Things lies in the collaboration between machines, and the sensor is its heart
"Sensor chip high-speed integration technology" can choose wireless sensor blocks with different characteristics to form a brand new sensor chip. For example, the chip center combines motion sensors, capacitive sensing signal reading, power-saving low-speed processors, Bluetooth wireless transmission, and battery power management circuits to create a "smart backpack sensor chip". When the backpack moves quickly and greatly, it may be climbing When the person falls into the valley, he can immediately send out a distress signal to the designated object; the chip center combines the deformation sensor, the resistance sensor signal reading, the RFID wireless transmission, the electromagnetic wave energy capture circuit, and the "smart bone plate chip" is produced, when the injured bone The plate is completely healed and no more deformation occurs, and a signal will be sent to inform the doctor that the bone plate can be removed by surgery.
Large foreign manufacturers mainly put sensor technology into industrial processes, while China can make this technology closer to life. Transportation, medical care, rescue, and wearable devices are all areas worth investing in. The key to the development of the Internet of Things lies in the collaboration and information transmission between machines, and sensors play an indispensable role in these machine networks and the longer-term interconnected world.
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