Automotive intelligence drives sensors into the blue ocean market

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet and the Internet of Things, the application space of sensors in many emerging fields has been greatly expanded. Today, the automotive industry is accelerating towards "intelligence". According to the China Society of Automotive Engineers, by 2030, the proportion of new cars sold in my country will reach 100%, and the sales volume of connected cars will reach 38 million. For smart cars, networking is only the first step. Systems such as autonomous driving and smart cockpits are the core of cars moving towards "intelligence". The core component of car intelligence is the sensor. Car sensors are devices that convert non-electrical signals into electrical signals and transmit various working condition information to the car. They are the core hardware for realizing car intelligent driving.

According to the forecast of the Prospective Industry Research Institute, the global automotive electronics market will reach US$355 billion in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 8.4% from 2018 to 2023. The intelligentization of automobiles drives sensors into the blue ocean market.

According to the different signal sources, automotive sensors can be divided into body sensing sensors and environment sensing sensors. Body sensing sensors are distributed throughout the car and are widely used in the power system, chassis system, and body system. They sense the car's own information and make decisions and execute them. They are the "nerve endings" of the car. They are currently more mature and mainly MEMS sensors.

Environmental perception sensors capture external information and provide it to the car computer system for planning and decision-making. They mainly include laser radar, on-board cameras, millimeter-wave radar, ultrasonic radar, etc. They are the "eyes" of the car and the basis of the future unmanned intelligent perception system. In the hierarchical structure of autonomous driving, automotive sensors are at the perception layer, with high product added value, and are the core hardware for realizing single-vehicle intelligent driving. For the application of automotive sensors in autonomous driving, please refer to articles such as "Analysis of Key Technology Applications of Laser Radar Sensors in Autonomous Driving and UAVs" and "Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Environmental Perception of Autonomous Driving".

Secondly, to realize the industrial production of body sensing sensors, a large amount of scientific research investment and long-term technology accumulation are required. Through nearly 80 years of development, the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries have made sensors cooperate with the corresponding control units of the body to realize the corresponding functions, and they are in a leading position in the field of automotive sensors. In 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of my country issued the "Basic Electronic Components Industry Development Action Plan (2021-2023)" to support the development of key technologies for electronic components, focusing on the development of high-end sensors such as temperature, gas, displacement, speed, optoelectronics, biochemistry, etc., as well as new MEMS sensors and intelligent sensors, focusing on promoting the application of electronic components such as automotive-grade sensors.

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