Abstract
Get Yole' s unique global and in-depth view of the IMU market:
- Global overview across 6 fields: Defense, Aerospace, Naval, Industrial,
Automotive, Consumer Electronicso:p>
- Analysis of RLG, FOG, HRG, Quartz and silicon MEMS technologies
- Market evaluation of 45 IMU applications
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) refers to a system with three mutually
orthogonal gyros and accelerometers. The IMU industry in the field of
aerospace is very mature, but as MEMS and quartz technologies move toward
higher performance they are finding their way into these markets. The road is
long before these technologies will enter in direct competition, but new uses
and new applications are emerging from these advances.
The decline of mechanical accelerometers such as DTGs creates interesting
business opportunities for other IMU system technologies. FOG, HRG (or other
resonant devices), and MEMS technologies are good substitute solutions. The
market opportunity comes both from new applications as well as the replacement
market for aerospace and defense systems.
New applications are increasing in both high performance markets and low
performance consumer markets. Sensors clusters are already integrating 4DOF to
5DOF solutions in gaming and handheld GPS products for example.
Customers are currently requesting 6DOF for selected applications and the
demand is only starting. The challenges to build these consumer IMUs are very
high and only a handful of players will manage to provide the appropriate
solution.
The key question in this field is currently: which partnerships will form to
provide processing and appropriate packaging solutions to the hundreds of
medium to low volume customers? Opportunities are wide open in this field in
the next 3 years.
The complexity of the IMU industry requires a complex monitoring of the
market. As industry leaders are monitoring the MEMS and other miniaturized
quartz technologies advances, challengers are evaluating the market
opportunity of new applications and potential replacement of older systems.
YYole' s market report provides a global and in depth market overview of the
IMU industry and a description of the leading players.
Yole estimates the 2007 IMU market to represent $1,85 B.
The market is mainly dominated by aircraft and missiles applications.o:p>
The overall growth rate is limited to single digit growth but selected
applications are expected to experience a significant growth.
KEY FEATURES OF THE REPORT
- 7 IMU technologies
- 6 fields investigated
- 45 IMU functions evaluated
- 20 company profiles
- 180+ Pages
This report gives an exhaustive analysis of the potential applications. It
gives a segmentation of aerospace, defense, naval industrial, automotive and
consumer electronics fields. The market analysis details each application
using the following criteria:
- Description of the application and the benefit of Inertial Measurement
Units
- Function and specification requirements for Inertial Measurement Units
- Description of the final product market players and trends
- Analysis of the competitive technologies and players
- Analysis of the IMU module market
- Global market evaluation of IMU applications: Volume in Munits, Average
Single Price (ASP), and 2007-2012 value forecasts
- Description of the products and technologies: product specifications,
technological and business trends
- Evaluation of major players market share and potential new entrants
This report not only describes the market at the player and application level,
but it provides a global view of the IMU market allowing the report user to
build diversification strategies taking into account technical requirements.
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Definition of an IMU
- Status of the IMU technology,
- Status of the gyroscope technologies,
- Status of the accelerometer technologies
Identification of the IMU functions
2007-2012 IMU market forecasts
- Breakdown per application,
- Breakdown per technology
2007 market shares
- Breakdown per application,
- Breakdown per technology
IMU market evaluation per field
- Aerospace
- Civil aircraft, General aviation, Civil UAVs, Civil Helicopters, Space
Satellites, Skyrocket
- Defense
- Military Fighters, Military Transport, Defense UAVs, Military
Helicopters, Strategic missiles, Tactical missiles, Combatant ship, Military
submarines, Armored vehicles, Soldiers
- Naval
- Freight transport ships, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Industrial and Medical
- High speed trains
- Others: precision robotics, medical testing?.
- Automotive
- Consumer Electronics
- Handheld GPS, Game control, Cell phones, Pointing devices
IMU market forecast per technology
ESG, RLG, FOG, HRG, DTG, Quartz , MEMS
IMU market evaluation per function
Navigation , Flight Control, Damping Stabilization, Cockpit instrumentation,
Satcom antenna stabilization, Flight test instrumentation, Vehicle
Stabilization, Sight Vision Stabilization, Ship Stabilization, Antenna
stabilization, Gun Stabilization, Motion measurement
IMU market evaluation per uses
Aircraft, UAV, Helicopter, Missiles, Ships, Submarine vehicles, Space
vehicles, Land military vehicles, Soldiers, Trains, Civilian cars, Handheld
consumer devices
IMU manufacturers company profile
Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, Sagem, Litef, Kearfott, Thales, Atlantic Inertial
Systems, L3Communications, IXSEA, EADS Astrium, KVH, Systron Donner Inertial,
Goodrich, iMAR, Crossbow, Gladiator Technologies, BOSCH, Panasonic, Murata,
Invensense
Synthesis and future challenges
