Reflections on Sensor Size

Mobile phones, wearable devices and consumer 'toys' represent a tiny fraction of the sensor market. This article is not focused on the BIG picture. This small sector of the market may well benefit from size reduction but it will not dramatically affect the overall market directly. Reductions in power for this type of sensor will trickle back to most other sensors eventually, but this is more likely to come about as higher power components are dropped from the electronics manufacturers inventory and cease to be available.

Present and future sensor market is mainly determined and/or dependent on the development of new device capabilities. Size or miniaturization demands will automatically follow..

A very good marketing / demand based example will be on the development of chemical sensors, devices that can sense, detect / differentiate different chemicals. A sensor capable to sense presence of various chemicals similar to a sensitive multi-chemical sniffer so to speak..