Sensor Capability and Opportunity

David Cumming

What do we mean by “sensor”

Market data: Europe

2009: $12.5B2009: $12.5B

2016: $18.9B 2016: $18.9B

• High diversity• CAGR = 6.7%• Analysis considers: Field

Instruments, MEMS, Personnel Protection, Motion & Position, Others

• Growth driven by increased applications

• Global Value estimate $69B (2013)

• High diversity• CAGR = 6.7%• Analysis considers: Field

Instruments, MEMS, Personnel Protection, Motion & Position, Others

• Growth driven by increased applications

• Global Value estimate $69B (2013)

Sensor System Functional Model

Aim: to rationalise diverse subject into a coherent picture

Measurand

User (superior decision system )

A single hierarchical model defines interfaces across the system

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Sensor Element

Transductance & pre-processing

Communications and networking

Data repository

Analysis & post processing

Visualisation & presentation

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How does GU do - income

£42M research and contract income associated with staff in sensors space

£21M

How does GU do – academic output

700 papers since 2008 associated with staff in sensors space

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External Drivers

External Market conditions: Sensors & Sensor Systems

• Market Opportunities: drug discovery; point of care diagnostics; SMART grid; offshore, renewables, oil & gas and shipping; intelligent transport; environmental; CBRNE (Defence)[SE Study 2010:PA Consulting Sensors Foresighting]

• The world-wide sensors component market is estimated to grow from its current global value of $44bn to $69.2bn by 2013 [Frost and Sullivan Sensors Market report 2009]

• The market for sensor systems is estimated to be 7 times the market for sensor components of ~$490bn[EPoSS Strategic Research Agenda 2009 – European Union Commission]

Glasgow Leadership

• The Scottish Sensor Systems Centre (S3C) responds to the Scottish Funding Council’s call for Knowledge Exchange (KE) proposals

• SFC funding of £1.2M /3 years received for terrestrial and subsea activities

• Demand identified through meetings between academic and industrial partners. A coalition of 23 contributing industrial partners has been established

• University of Glasgow is leading terrestrial work stream

A collaborative vision

Public Sector

Academia

Industry

Engagement to provide

- a link with between existing research activities

- a focus point to industry operating across the sensor value chain

- sensor test beds to allow new technologies to be fully exercised

- infrastructure locations to undertake real monitoring application development

The primary aims are to:- accelerate Innovation; provide input to research based on the needs of industry; build and maintain a community able to exploit the results

Industrial partners: providers and users

Three Case Studies

Three case studies that illustrate GU intervention

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The University of Glasgow Statistics Group

• The University of Glasgow Statistics group

• Spatiotemporal models to data collected in networks of sensors

• Methodology for spatiotemporal models

• Visualisation

– modelling flood risk in Scotland

– monitoring water quality and biogeochemical cycling

– modelling brain signals

– modelling air quality (and health impacts)

Nitrate in the TweedModelling River FlowMap of brain activity

Orthophosphate inEngland and Wales

Ion Sensing - Gene Sequencing

The FIRST Glasgow array

Further scale-up World’s first optics-free sequencing system

Ion Torrent Ion Torrent

Migration and scale-up

World Economic Forum

Probes for Atomic Force Microscopy

Palladium resistance thermometer• Versatile• Sensitive• Linear

Batch fabricated probes on wafer scale

A Kelvin Nanotechnology Product

GU research productised and sold through KNTGU/KNT estimated to have 95% of world-wide market

Summary

There’s no getting away from it:

“Sensors” is a complex and diverse field that means many different things to different people

The field can be rationalised as a layered “stack”

Glasgow University contributes expertise throughout the stack

There is an emerging national agenda to which we have a good fit

Glasgow University has excellent impact on sensors research and implementation