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Guo Yuansheng, Deputy Director of the Central Science and Technology Committee of the Jiusan Society, Executive Vice Chairman of the China Sensor and Internet of Things Industry Alliance, former Chief Engineer of the Electronic Components Industry Development Research Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and a specially invited expert at Southern Power Grid Sensor Company; part-time professor at Wuhan University, East China University of Science and Technology, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Academician of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence in the United States and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in the United Kingdom.
Key Insights:
The sensor industry needs to be re-evaluated and repositioned
As one of the three pillars of modern information systems, sensors provide essential raw data for the intelligence of all control systems and equipment, earning the title of “Mother of Data.” The global technological and industrial transformation driven by artificial intelligence technology has accelerated the rapid transformation and upgrading of sensor technology and industry from a model characterized by a variety of products, small batches, low prices, and singularity, towards a high-end direction of multi-functionality, strong integration, high growth, scalability, and superior service, while also triggering a reshuffle within the industry.
Recently, Guo Yuansheng proposed that the industry urgently needs to re-evaluate and reposition the development of the sensor industry.Sensors should be classified as an independent industry, and systematic planning should be conducted from multiple dimensions such as strategic positioning, top-level design, problem orientation, precise policy implementation, and scientific evaluation.
Six Major Pain Points and Strategic Opportunities Explained:
Why does the industry need to be repositioned?
In addressing the issues in the development of the sensor industry, Guo Yuansheng precisely summarized them into six words:High, Small, Dispersed, Many, Lacking, Difficult.“High” reflects the high technical barriers and research and development costs; “Small” indicates that enterprises are generally limited in scale, lacking globally influential leading companies; “Dispersed” reflects the scattered industrial layout and insufficient regional collaboration; “Many” manifests as a wide variety of products with inconsistent standards; “Lacking”” is concentrated in the weak independent innovation capability of high-end products and core technologies; “Difficult” focuses on the long-standing issue of “disconnection between production and use,” where “those who make sensors do not use them, and those who use sensors do not understand their characteristics and principles.”
Despite the significant issues, the new round of technological revolution also brings major strategic opportunities for the sensor industry. Guo Yuansheng pointed out that the innovation of single sensitive components has become history, multi-parameter fusion, intelligence, and modularization are the new directions for product technology development. This not only helps to solve the “disconnection between production and use” dilemma but also promotes the industry from a low-end dispersed model to a high integration, high added value development model. At the same time, the country’s high emphasis on new productive forces and the autonomy of key core technologies, along with the continuous expansion of downstream application markets, jointly provide unprecedented policy support and market opportunities for industrial development. How to turn challenges into transformation momentum, achieve technological breakthroughs, and build ecosystems has become a key issue for the industry to move towards high-end development.
Building Dual Ecosystems and Upgrading Intelligence:
Breaking the deadlock to reconstruct the industrial ecosystem
In this context, Guo Yuansheng proposed professional insights, believing that the industrial development of sensors needs toseek economic benefits from applications and expand capabilities from product technology, building a dual ecosystem for the industry. Under the multiple factors of capital, market demand, and industrial competition, the sensor industry has reached a turning point for reshuffling. For sustainable and healthy high-quality development, it is even more necessary to establish a complete standard system for regulation. At the same time, it is essential to avoid misalignment between product technology research and market application needs.
In the future, the key for sensor companies to win market competition lies inbreaking traditional product marketing models,enhancing technical support and service capabilities. By building artificial intelligence and big data platforms, integrating front-end technology resources (such as new mechanisms, new materials, new processes, etc.) with back-end market information (such as multi-scenario application needs, user pain point exploration, etc.), forming a value service system covering the entire industry chain, this will become an important path to promote innovation breakthroughs and sustainable development in the sensor industry.
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