The trend of intelligent life is becoming more and more obvious, and network access devices are growing rapidly. At the same time, the application of emerging network concepts such as the Internet of Things has accelerated the upgrade of sensor devices, and the proportion of the smart sensor industry is rising.

    Smart life connects all kinds of things in life together, and the growth of the Internet of Things has become an indisputable fact. According to IDC's forecast, the size of the global IoT market will increase from 5.4 trillion US dollars in 2013 to 7.3 trillion US dollars in 2017. The rise of a series of new lifestyles, such as smart homes and wearable devices, has brought the industry chain gold mining opportunities to sensors. Among them, the market share of smart sensors is rising rapidly.

    The rise of smart sensing is due to people's thirst for smart life.

    The rapid rise of smart sensors stems from the huge demand for information classification. "We swim in the ocean of sensors and are overwhelmed by massive data," said Dharmendra Modha, IBM's team leader. "The rapid growth of sensor data has limited our ability to use data. And new smart sensors can quickly distinguish important data from unwanted information before transmitting it to a central server.

    At the same time, in order to be better applied in various end products, the size of smart sensors is also shrinking, and even some are as small as needles. For the future development of smart sensors, WinterGreen has given hopeful predictions: the smart sensors with integrated processors will reach 2.8 trillion in 2019, much higher than the 65 million in 2013.

    Including MEMS sensors, etc., as the core of the upstream technology of the industry chain, MEMS sensor systems originally used in automobiles and smart phones began to enter the field of wearable devices. According to research firm ResearchandMarkets, the global market value of sensors for consumer electronics in 2013 was $15.27 billion, and will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 9.7%, reaching $29.25 billion in 2020.