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Read Full ArticleA new report from IDTechEx, “Emerging Image Sensor Technologies 2021-2031: Applications and Markets”, comprehensively explores the market for emerging image sensors, covering a diverse range of technologies that span from thin-film flexible photodetectors to event-based vision.
Image sensing is an essential capability, utilised across multiple applications that range from webcams and smartphone cameras to autonomous vehicles and industrial inspection. The FM industry is reaching for new heights of technological integration and looking to adopt innovations like this. Despite a reluctance from some in the sector to engage with digital transformation, leading services and installations are employing the latest in smart tech for fit-outs. Image sensor technology upgrades have the potential to improve a multitude of monitoring faculties, such as security surveillance, or maintenance identification.
While conventional CMOS detectors for visible light – semiconductor devices that serve as "electronic eyes" - are well established and somewhat commoditised, at least for low-value applications, there is an extensive opportunity for more complex image sensing hardware that offer capabilities beyond simply acquiring red, green, and blue intensity values at each pixel. This largely stems from the ever-increasing adoption of machine vision, in which image analysis is performed by computational algorithms. Machine learning requires as much input data as possible to establish correlations that can facilitate object identification and classification, so acquiring optical information over different wavelength ranges, or with spectral resolution, for example, is highly advantageous.
Of course, emerging image sensor technologies offer many other benefits. This can include similar capabilities at a lower cost, increased dynamic range, improve temporal resolution, spatially variable sensitivity, global shutters at high resolution, reducing the unwanted influence of scattering, flexibility/conformity, and more.
Emerging image sensor technologies within the IDTechEx report include:
In summary, the increasing adoption of machine vision provides a great opportunity for emerging image sensing technologies that offer capabilities beyond conventional CMOS sensors. This report offers a comprehensive overview of the market for emerging image sensor technologies, covering a multitude of applications that range from autonomous vehicles to industrial quality control.
“Emerging Image Sensor Technologies 2021-2031: Applications and Markets”, outlines the current status and future application for a wide range of emerging image sensors. Also included are highly granular 10-year market forecasts by revenue and volume - split by technology and application - along with multiple application case studies and technological/commercial readiness assessments. The report also includes many company profiles based on interviews with early-stage and established companies.
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Article written by Bailey Sparkes | Published 04 August 2021
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