Market Opportunities for MEMS Energy Harvesting Devices – Bharatbook.com
MEMS Energy Harvesting Devices Technologies and Markets Report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/MEMS-Energy-Harvesting-Devices-Technologies-and-Markets.html ) gives Market driver analysis for challenges that go beyond energy density!
OBJECTIVES OF THE REPORT
This report focuses on MEMS energy harvesting devices from both technology and market points of view.
Special attention has been given to the market drivers for adopting MEMS energy harvesting devices in different market segments, factoring the progress of competing technologies and cost constraints.
It appears that the numerous opportunities for energy harvesting devices must be analyzed carefully, taking into account all aspects of the final application from power consumption profiles to lifetime and size constraints. Applications screened cover automotive, medical, industrial machine monitoring and process control, home automation and defense.
The main developments in MEMS energy harvesting devices are described and compared to fuel cells and micro-batteries. The report also describes the challenges facing the current players and the current market trends and business models.
MAIN CHALLENGES
Within an environmentally conscious world, MEMS Energy harvesting devices promise in principle a cleaner and almost perpetual solution to powering small systems avoiding the use and waste of polluting batteries.
Ever optimistic market projections are predicting billions of dollars in revenue for ubiquitous sensor networks in the next five to ten years and derive from these numbers large energy harvesting sales and volumes.
And indeed, MEMS energy harvesting devices have been a hot topic in MEMS R&D for some years with spectacular developments driven by DARPA programs within the Hi-MEMS cyborg insects.
The reality is that beyond the technological buzz, commercial applications are slowly starting to get to market for industrial applications and home automation appliances. This is driving the first volumes for energy harvesting applications, but not necessarily at the micro scale. Hot market segments in 2007 and 2008 such as tire pressure monitoring systems where batteries are currently the dominant solution have driven enormous efforts but the market dynamics have not made it possible to accept a premium price for alternative solutions.
We have focused our efforts in this report into a fine analysis of the market drivers for using MEMS energy harvesting devices, in comparison to micro batteries, micro fuel cells, or even solar cells. Different application fields from medical to home automation, industrial process control, machine monitoring or transportations have been analyzed in this report.
The challenges facing this technology were examined in a broad view, from a technology but also from a whole product point of view. There are needs for better power density but also for less power consuming electronics and wireless communications!
MARKET METRICS
Market acceptance of MEMS energy harvesting devices is a function of several parameters that are studied in the report.
These parameters include, but are not limited to: size, cost, amount of power generated versus amount of power needed by the system and projected lifetime for the energy harvesting device compared to the system parts lifetime.
A major factor to be taken into account is whether there is enough power harvested for a particular application from a particular environment, and whether the scavenged power needs to be stored. As piezoelectric MEMS energy harvesting devices can currently power sensor nodes requiring 60 uW according to the latest developments, a companion energy storage device would be necessary for most applications.
Commercial success will come from a full understanding of all aspects of the system to be powered and of the data receiver nodes.
Challenges include ultra low power electronics and wireless data transmissions rates and standards.
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
* 21 applications evaluated
* Global overview across 7 fields: automotive, industrial, building & home automation, environment monitoring, military & aerospace, medical, consumer electronics
* 14 company profiles
* 180+ slides
* Analysis of piezoelectric, capacitive, electromagnetic vibration energy harvesting and thin film thermal energy harvesting
* Review of the lastest developments in energy storage devices (microbatteries…), wireless communication technologies and wireless sensor networks
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Overview of the RF MEMS Switch Market Globally
MEMS Switch and Varicap Market Report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/MEMS-Switch-and-Varicap-Market.html ) gives Struggles in industrial market offset by increasing interest from the cell phone industry.
Get a global and in-depth view of the RF MEMS Switch Market: : MEMS switch and Varicap applications, Target price per application and dedicated end market, Focus on RF MEMS switches for cell phone applications, How and when will they be integrated in front end modules?
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
MEMS switches and varicaps products are getting to commercialization today. These products either replace existing switching products or create new features. The industry is just emerging with early sales levels in 2006.
Successful sales of MEMS switches have been registered for ATE (Automated Test Equipment) and other defense and industrial applications since 2006. Despite a market growth in 2007 the two industrial market leaders, Teravicta and Simpler Network have nevertheless stopped their activity in December 2007. It will be a challenge for the industry to recover from this difficult start. But acquisitions in the field of the cell phone module industry (such as EPCOS acquisition of NXP MEMS varicap activity) raise commercialization expectations in the next 2 years.
This report highlights who is poised to be the next leading players and which applications will drive the MEMS switch and varicap sales in the 2007-2012 period.
Six players are currently commercializing or sampling products on the market (RadantMEMS, MEW, Advantest, XCOMwireless, MEMtronics, Wispry) and more than 20 additional products development projects have been listed in the report.
M&A activity will certainly increase in the next 5 years in order to push forward the commercialization of these technologies like EPCOS did this year.
The potential market for switches and varicaps is therefore large because MEMS based switches are expected to both: substitute existing products, enable new applications, particularly for mobile phones within the short term
The main market drivers for the cell phone applications are the following :
* Weight and size benefit for space and ATE (Automated Test Equipment) applications
* Increased RF switching performance at constant size and cost, for cell phone and radars applications
* Ability to create switching matrix being low cost and good RF performances in wired and wireless telecom applications
MEMS switch and varicaps will generate over US$ 700M sales by 2012. The market will be mainly driven by cell phones applications.
Price erosion be a major concern from MEMS manufacturers as volume ramps up. Market leaders will have a major advantage in this complex technology development period. This report not only describes the market at the player and application level, but it provide a global view of the RF MEMS switch market allowing to build diversification strategies taking into account technical requirements.
KEY FEATURES OF THE REPORT
* 6 fields investigated
* 13 applications evaluated
* 150+ companies listed
* Analysis on the complete value chain (Technology, Foundry, IDM, OEMs)
* 200+ Pages
This report gives an exhaustive analysis of the potential applications. It gives a segmentation of defense, industrial, automotive and telecom field. The market analysis details each application using the following criteria:
* Description of the application and the benefit of RF MEMS switches
* Function and specification requirements for RF MEMS switches
* Description of the final product market players and trends
* Analysis of the competitive technologies and players
* Analysis of the RF MEMS switches market
* lobal market evaluation of the RF MEMS switch applications: component volume in Munits, Average Single Price (ASP), and 2007-2012 value forecasts
* Description of the products and technologies: product specifications, technological trends and business trends
* Evaluation of major players market share and potential new entrants
The main challenges facing the RF MEMS switch industries are discussed in order to forecast the evolution of the global MEMS industry and its impact on each market.
Who should buy the report?
MEMS manufacturers:
* Evaluate the accessible market for your switch or varicap components
* Define diversification strategies on new applications for your core switch or varicap technology
* Evaluate the technology selection and the level of development of your competitors
* Support a strategic decision to enter, exit, or find a partner in the switch and varicap industry
Handset manufacturers and operators:
* Understand the benefits of MEMS based products over competitive technologies
* Access to an updated product roadmap and the status of the MEMS leading players
* Evaluate how MEMS can change the architecture of the cell phone front end
* Understand why power amplifier market will have a negative growth after 2012
* Get detailed company profiles with description of the product technology & process
MEMS foundries, equipment & material manufacturers :
* Evaluate the business potential of your customers developing switch and varicap products
* Identify the switch and varicap processes selected by each MEMS manufacturer
* Prepare new business development strategies
Financial and strategic investors :
* Understand the MEMS technology, product and challenges which will replace existing switch technologies or create new features
* Evaluate the business opportunity for MEMS companies in the field of switches and varicaps
Contact us at:
Bharat Book Bureau
Tel: 91 22 27578668
Fax: 91 22 27579131
Email: info@bharatbook.com
Website: www.bharatbook.com
Bharat Book Bureau facilitates companies to take the lead of their industry with best practice business strategies and intelligence, through a unique combination of published reports, databases, country reports, company profiles and customized research services. Bharat Book Bureau provides strategic information tools to the executives, business analysts, and knowledge managers that will help them to probe into and support critical, timely business decisions and strategies.
