Dublin, July 15, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Mid IR Sensors: Market Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2016-2022" to their offering.
Worldwide mid IR sensor markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the Internet of things creates demand for more and more sensors. Everything needs a sensor to be connected to the Internet and available to smart phone apps. Mid IR sensors can measure chemical composition of materials and gas. The efficiency is unmatched by any other technology; cost is increasingly competitive. Mid IR is extending use beyond military applications to commercial systems, including the Internet of things where sensors become part of network systems.
Mid IR sensors are the base of the Internet of Things initiatives, they form the building blocks for all different types of imaging and controls. Drones, robots, industrial robots, machines, cameras, buildings, fire departments, traffic lights, traffic control, the military, the border patrol, law enforcement, healthcare, asthma treatment, virtually everyone will increasingly use mid IR sensors.
The Internet of Things (IoT) does not work without sensors, mid IR sensors provide a significant aspect of modern visualization and sensing. Drones use mid IR sensors for cameras and for navigation. Robots use mid IR cameras for navigation. The intelligence community has used this mid IR sensor technology for a long time and the technology is now gaining traction in the commercial markets.
Mid IR sensors can measure chemical composition of materials and gas. The efficiency is unmatched by any other technology; cost is increasingly competitive. Mid IR has extended use beyond military applications to commercial systems, including the Internet of things where sensors become part of network systems. Mid-IR QCL systems have achieved price performance levels that are increasingly attractive. Vendors bring sensing capabilities to a broad range of applications, including: spectroscopic and bio-medical imaging; materials characterization; standoff explosive detection; microscopy; and non-destructive testing.
Spectroscopy and imaging measurements are easier, faster and more cost-effective leveraging advances in mid IR sensing. Mid-infrared sensors and imaging applications depend on quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology. Daylight Solutions quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology has been delivered to more systems for more customers in more applications than all other QCL-based solutions combined. Advances in QC laser technology and spectrometer hardware are combined with spectroscopic techniques. Intra pulse spectroscopy and similar techniques provide a major step change in sensitivity, speed of operation, fingerprinting capability, size and cost.
They offer a major improvement on methods of gas detection. Recent advances in spectrometer hardware relate to QC gas sensors. Advances exploit recent technological advances including miniaturized integrated electronic systems, plug and play interfaces and micro optics. These will progressively replace unwieldy, fragile and expensive instrumentation. The lasing wavelength for QCL's is determined by the choice of semiconductor material. By adjusting the physical thickness of the semiconductor layers new functionality is achieved. This removes the material barriers associated with conventional semiconductor laser technology.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Mid IR Sensor Market Description and Market Dynamics
2 Mid IR Sensors Market Shares and Market Forecasts
3. Mid IR Sensors Product Description
4. Mid IR Sensor Technology
5. Mid Infrared (IR) Sensors Company Profiles
- Acuity Brands
- AdTechoptics
- Advanced Photonix
- Aerocrine
- Agiltron / SensArrayInfrared
- Alpes Lasers / ALTechnologies
- BAE
- Block Engineering
- Bosch
- Bosch Micro-Epsilon
- Circassia / Aerocrine
- Cymbet
- Danaher / Raytek
- Daylight Solutions
- Digi International
- Ekips Technologies
- Elliot Scientific
- Emerson / Cascade Technologies
- EnOcean GmbH
- FLIR
- Ferro Solutions
- Finmeccanica
- Finmeccanica / SELEX Galileo
- Flexible Electronics Concepts
- Fortive 730
- GE / Senseair
- General Electric (GE)
- Hamamatsu
- II-VI / Marlow Sick AG
- II-VI incorporated / Marlow Industries
- ILX Lightwave
- IPG Photonics
- Johnson Controls
- JonDeTech
- Kidde Products Limited / Airsense Technology
- Linear Control/Dust Networks
- Lockheed-Martin
- M Squared
- MIRTHE (Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment)
- MKS / Newport
- Market Participants
- Marktech Optoelectronics
- Mitre
- Nanophase Technologies
- National Science Foundation
- Opto Diode Corporation
- Opto Solutions
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Raytheon Lockheed Martin
- SELEX Galileo Inc.
- Sensor Products
- Sofradir
- Spectris / Omega
- United Technologies / Kidde
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/nvs87j/mid_ir_sensors
Source: Wintergreen Research, Inc