As the sensor industry will further develop towards the production of large-scale, specialized and automated side, and with the accelerated development of new sensitive materials and the comprehensive application of new technologies, the sensor industry of our country has developed rapidly in recent years, showing a good development trend.

Sensors play a key role in intelligent production

    Such as intelligent chemical plant in the solution of upstream and downstream e-trade and logistics, both cost and technology will be greatly reduced and improve efficiency. If the Industry 4.0 to solve the current alternative taobao, it can only be in the B2B side, B2C side at least in the current vision is completely out of the question. Because at the heart of Industry 4.0 and Industry 2025 is intelligent manufacturing, networked or digital, the front end will be intelligent, but all of that will require sensors, just like a person, the eyes are actually visual sensors, the nose is the olfactory sensor, and the skin is the tactile sensor. Because humans have so many intelligent organs, humans are the highly intelligent animals. And then there are the actuators, the hands, the legs, the blinking, the lip-twitching, all of these things that are transmitted by certain tissues to the brain, and the brain computes and processes this data and then directs it to the organs, organs can make all kinds of actions and behaviors.

    In the whole theory of control, all control is realized through front-end perception, although some systems are pre-set, but pre-set and conditional response are completely different things, there are also two aspects to intelligentization. If a basin of water is thrown at a person, if it is preset, whatever water comes will be avoided, because water can not be perceived, and if it is perceived, to pour the water to first feel cold water or hot water, if feeling very painful will be under the water poured quickly dodge, if feeling comfortable will enjoy the welcome. This is also an important basis for many people to develop entertainment projects. And if it is pre-set, it is clear that people do not have the ability to feel and judge.

    In intelligence, the role of sensors is such a key, no perception, intelligence will not be reflected. If the whole system is a lot of empirical or predictive, which first needs the support of super-large data, on the other hand in the actual situation all kinds of changes are new, it is impossible to have an accurate prediction of it in advance, which would create some hidden danger to the actual production. So in intelligent production, the role of sensors is absolutely critical.

The sensor becomes the important place which the component enterprise competes

   “At present, the automobile is in the transition period of auxiliary intelligence, partial intelligence and complete intelligence. We must make a difference in auxiliary driving and intelligent driving. Our auto parts enterprises can not afford to miss the opportunity again.” China Aviation Automobile System Holding Co. , Ltd. . Zhou shi-ning senior specialist in independent brands of auto parts companies in the heart-to-heart Talk said. However, Robert Bosch GmbH, mainland China, Valeo, Infineon, Delfaut and other foreign component companies have already taken the technological high ground in autonomous driving assistance systems (ADAS) , especially in the sensor market, our auto parts enterprises have lost in the“Starting Line”.

    By 2016, for example, cars will need monitoring systems and drivers will need to be ready to take over, with the goal of driving within 30km/h, and by 2020, highly autonomous vehicles, there will be no monitoring system, but the driver will have to take over the driving within a set period of time; by 2025, there will be no monitoring system, and the driver will not have to take over the driving to be fully autonomous. This is Continental's three-step transformation from assisted driving to autonomous driving. In fact, this also represents the judgment of zero foreign-funded parts enterprises. Dirkhoheisel, a member of Bosch's management committee, said cars could be on the motorway by 2020 if legal and insurance issues were resolved. Analysts at BNP Paribas think global sales of semi-autonomous cars could reach 8.7 m in 2020 and rise to 22.7 m by 2025. “True autonomous driving requires reliable sensors, secure vehicle data, complex system architecture, safety simulations and regulations,” said Dirkhoheisel, a Bosch board member. In recent years, there has been a lot of technological breakthroughs to make for autonomous driving, but getting more of the features of ADAS into cars as quickly as possible, and making them safer and smarter to drive, is an achievable goal.

   Foreign investment began to accelerate the development of ADAS sensors. ADAS systems require many sensors and more powerful microprocessors, and Infineon has developed many long-and short-range radars for this purpose, including multi-core single-chip Aurix to provide stronger information processing and related solutions.

Chinese companies are stepping up efforts in the automotive sensor market

    With the development of automotive intelligence and the application of a large number of active safety technologies, the global market for automotive sensors has ushered in a rapid expansion opportunities. As an emerging market, China's auto sensor market is growing at an unprecedented speed. Statistics show that China sold 500 million automotive sensors in 2012, a figure that is expected to double to 1 billion by 2016.

    There is no modern car without sensor technology, which has become the consensus in the auto industry. Facing the trend of miniaturization, intelligentization, non-contact measurement and MEAS sensing technology, which will gradually replace traditional mechanical, strain Gage and sliding potentiometer sensing technology, international auto parts giant has been increasing R & D investment and product distribution. As a latecomer, if you don't catch up, the gap will only get bigger.

    Relative to the current difficulties, many local parts enterprises may be more lack of courage and perseverance to go up. Competition in the market is like sailing against the current. Although foreign counterparts have strong competitive advantages in terms of capital, technology and so on, but the market space is vast, home-field operations of local components enterprises have a natural advantage, according to the market changes can quickly make up for deficiencies, there are still many for survival, development opportunities and space. In addition, the industry said, in the growth of local sensor companies, local vehicle companies can not be lacking support, and even the need for industrial policy support.

The development of sensor industry needs the support of government and the global vision of enterprises

   In the whole Industry 4.0 process, sensors can be said to be in great demand, the market is vast and widely used, but because of this, there are problems of technology decentralization, market decentralization and investment decentralization, a“Loose” word is representing the entire sensor market now, which will be a difficult point for future development.

    From a global perspective, it is mainly the development of technology, whether the development of technology meets the development of industrial manufacturing; from China's current situation, the first is investment, most enterprises are not enough investment, or lack of financial support; second is the lack of global vision of Chinese companies; third is the technology research and development and product prices

    In order to solve this problem, manufacturing enterprises should take the initiative to lower prices as much as possible, so as to drive the demand of the market. Large sales volume will then drive the high-tech input of the enterprises, this will enable a number of links in the problem gradually be solved, which China's sensor industry or industry 2025 process will be greatly helpful.

    In order to solve these problems, the government should also give some support, such as giving some subsidies to the funds for product research and development, which will greatly reduce the pressure on enterprises when products are put on the market, after all, companies need to survive. There are already signs in the sensor industry that the scale of companies entering this field is becoming very large. However, no matter whether they are large or small, they must have their own focus, otherwise, if you do not have their own unique advantages will soon die in the competition. Secondly, we should have a global perspective. Only by taking a long-term view will we be able to gain an advantage in technology and markets, and not be eliminated by the rapid replacement of homogeneity.