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World Level Sensors and Transmitters Market
Frost & Sullivan, Sep 2009, Pages: 358
Expanding Applications of Level Sensors and Transmitters Compel Manufacturers to Improve Product Precision and Operability
The rising importance of level sensing in critical end-user applications and analysis has encouraged sensor manufacturers to pump considerable funds into R&D to improve the current levels of sensor operations and develop novel products. These efforts are aimed at achieving the twin goals of expanding the existing market and penetrating new ones. To succeed in a market that is already characterized by a high level of system precision and competency, it is essential to offer instruments with easy operability as well as enhanced reliability. The latest product versions will also be looking to address the need for seamless integration for maximizing the performance of both system and component level sensors. At present, manufacturers are focusing on submersible applications in environmental and sub-sea devices. Non-contact and continuous level measurement technologies such as ultrasonic, radar, and microwave are also expanding their reach, while modern technologies such as nuclear, laser, optical, and MEMS are diversifying into fresh application areas including oil and gas, highly viscous, submersible, and multiphase applications. Multi-parameter level devices backed by multi-vendor interoperability, chip-level integration, and miniaturization have plugged the gaps of conventional levels sensors to gradually penetrate selected application areas.
Smart and intelligent level sensors with the ability to seamlessly integrate into the system encourage large-scale adoption. Users have shown a preference for level sensors that are simple and reusable, as such units forestall re-installation, re-wiring, and cable crimping. Integrating advanced technologies (MEMS, microprocessor technology sensors, sensors with self-adjustment capabilities) allows the creation of a single, flexible, user-friendly, low-cost measurement device. Microtechnology has enabled previously disparate functions such as level, pressure, and temperature or level, flow, and temperature to be integrated into one compact device. “Meanwhile, the use of industrial fieldbus-compliant pressure devices in both wired and wireless applications has ensured microsecond communication,” says the analyst of this research. “Apart from helping manufacturers distinguish themselves, this technology advancement has taken the sensor and instruments to the next higher level of operation, and is almost failsafe now.”
Level sensors are used in extreme temperature conditions, especially in process applications, and in high-end cars to measure the levels of engine oils and liquids of temperatures above 150 degrees Celsius. However, salinity, pollution, corrosion, temperature, and pressure can compromise the accuracy, reliability, and life of level sensors. This can be a significant threat to the level sensors used in the chemical and petrochemical industries, as they are subject to corrosion. The production of level sensors that can withstand extreme environments and materials could sometimes require redesigning a part of the system, but such demands become difficult to accommodate as it involves cost escalations and safety risks. In critical applications such as petrochemicals, oil and gas (custody transfers, nuclear power generation) and environmental (carbon sequestration in coal-based power generation plants), the use of wireless pressure sensors and transmitters becomes imperative. In these applications, interoperability poses a major challenge to manufacturers, whose concerns are further aggravated by the embedding of proprietary software. Wireless communication technology is successful only if the network and mobile equipment of different vendors can communicate.
Manufacturers will also have to deal with the issue of packaging pressure devices such as MEMS. Seamless integration in the absence of common standards further intensifies this challenge. “The relationship between the sensor component and the packaging is more important in the MEMS industry when compared to the semiconductor industry because of the moving parts within the MEMS-based sensors and the environments they function in,” notes the analyst. “The packaging challenges become more crucial when one considers the hostile operating environments such as those in industrial applications.” The problem of packaging has been largely alleviated as companies have consistently become better at packaging through the years. Manufacturers will also have some guidance from the strict regulatory demands for critical and non-intrusive applications. The level instruments used in non-intrusive level sensing and measurements should have either special carcinogenic-proof or explosion-proof jackets. Such stipulations are crucial, especially for critical applications, as any interference can result in false level sensing and measurement. In the case of non-intrusive applications, this assumes even greater significance, and helps ensure constant R&D by manufacturers.
Application Sectors
Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:
- Process
- Pulp and paper
- Oil & petroleum
- Plastics
- HVAC
- Semiconductors
- Agriculture
- Pharmaceuticals
- Construction and building materials
- Cooking oils
- Marine
- Water Sports
- Resins
- Power Generation
- Aerospace
- Mining and Minerals
- Oceanography
- Sewage sludges
- Effluent and solid supensions
- Food and Beverages
- Environmental
- Automotive
- Slurry
- Corrosive and other highly viscous
- Others
This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World Level Sensors and Transmitters Market provides an overview of the worldwide market for different pressure technologies, pressure devices, and end-user segments in terms of revenues by end users and geographic regions. It also provides a complete analysis of key market drivers and technology trends that impact the growth of the global market. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following technologies: magnetostrictive, vibratory probes, hydrostatic, capacitance, conductivity, ultrasonic, radar/ microwave, mechanical and magnetic float, rotating paddle, pneumatic, weight and cable, resistive chain, air bubbler, others {micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), optical, nuclear, load cell}.
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