Sensors

Tunneling magneto resistance sensors are rapidly disrupting the automotive and wearables industry. These tiny sensors leverage quantum phenomena to provide a performance edge over classical incumbents, including industry mainstays such as Hall effect sensors. Although they don't depend on the more exciting effects such as superposition and entanglement, in this article, IDTechEx highlights the lessons to be learned from the success of TMR sensors in the emerging quantum sensor market.

In the realm of automation, where innovation meets industry, a groundbreaking revolution is sweeping through the landscape of automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Traditionally confined indoors for tasks like intralogistics and material handling, AGVs are breaking free into the great outdoors, driven by advancements in navigation technologies and the emergence of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs).

Wednesday 25 October 2023 - Air Quality Monitoring Technology: Comparing the Opportunities in Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, and Smart Homes - What are the latest innovations in miniaturized gas sensor technology? What is the state of the market for air quality monitoring? Why is adoption into 'smart-cities' still niche? How do opportunities compare between smart-building and smart-home?

Thursday 26 October 2023 - Visualizing Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Assessing the Future of Image. Vision beyond visible light spectrum - expanding visualization of electromagnetic spectrum; Growing interest in SWIR imaging and key technologies targeting this space; Challenges facing this sector and opportunities for market entrants; Applications benefitting from SWIR growth from autonomous vehicles to agriculture; Emergence of event-based vision and miniaturized spectrometry

This premium article discusses infrared imaging for driver monitoring.

Radars are already cemented into the automotive market as they provide popular ADAS features such as adaptive cruise control (ACC) and blind spot detection (BSD). Despite their near ubiquitous presence in vehicles, IDTechEx's new report "Automotive Radar 2024-2044: Forecast, Technologies, Applications" finds that there is still large growth potential for this sensor, mostly driven by new opportunities for short-range radars.

eLichens has announced the release of a natural gas detector using its infra-red technology.

For thousands of years, people have relied on and continue to rely on their vision to assess their surroundings. They evaluate objects and apply pre-conceived hypotheses based on what they see, and they do this daily.

This premium article discusses the emerging automotive and medical markets for miniaturized gas sensors.

Gas sensor technology makes the invisible, visible. A plethora of different technology types can be used to measure analytes related to safety and health - quantifying the composition of air quality inside and out

ATMO, formerly Atmotube, specializes in air quality and environmental monitoring products.

Quantinuum is the result of a merger between Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell. The company is developing a quantum computer and other solutions, including for quantum communications/cyber security. IDTechEx Senior Technology Analyst Tess Skyrme caught up with the company at Quantum Tech Europe 2023.

Founded in 1995, OmniVision specializes in delivering digital imaging products for mobile phones, laptops, webcams, surveillance cameras as well as automotive and medical applications.

In this premium article IDTechEx provides an update on the outdoor pollution monitoring market for miniaturized gas sensors.

Innovation roadmap for the application readiness level of SWIR detectors.

Innovation roadmap for the environmental gas sensor market 'at a glance.

Quantum.Tech Europe 2023 was hosted in Twickenham Stadium in London from September 19-20. IDTechEx attended in person, alongside an estimated 400 other attendees. This event summary focuses on the content presented regarding quantum computing and quantum sensing.

ISORG are a French company that manufacture screen printed organic photodetectors (OPDs), with a target market of large area fingerprint sensors for mobile and security applications. They are the only company capable of mass producing OPDs.

Dr Skyrme and Dr O'Brien caught up with CEO of SmartNanotubes Viktor Bezugly.

Visualizing images beyond the visible end of the electromagnetic spectrum has become increasingly important for several applications. This premium article covers a growing imaging area that could help revolutionize the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)/autonomous driving, agriculture, industrial inspection and medical industries. The short-wave infrared (SWIR) range of the spectrum exhibits significant promise and is analyzed further in this article.