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IDTechEx forecasts that the global sensor market will reach US$250B by 2036 as global mega-trends in mobility, AI, robotics, 6G connectivity and IoT drive sensor demand. IDTechEx’s newly updated “Sensor Market 2026-2036: Technologies, Trends, Players, Forecasts” report provides extensive analysis of the global sensor market, including 58 company profiles and insights collected from over 20 related sensor reports.
Summarizing IDTechEx’s extensive sensors report portfolio, this research contains over 35 sensor technology SWOT analyses, 24 technology readiness level roadmaps, material requirements and supplier information across future mobility, IoT, wearables, biomedical, edge computing, environmental sensing and more. This sensor market analysis includes updated granular ten-year sensor forecasts, segmented by sensor technology.
Hundreds of millions of sensors are produced each year and are ubiquitously used in communications, transport, industry, healthcare, energy, consumer, and buildings applications. While sensors themselves only compose a fraction of the annual revenue generated by major electronics companies, sensor technology nevertheless represents a multi-billion-dollar global market.
“Sensor Market 2026-2036: Technologies, Trends, Players, Forecasts” provides a comprehensive overview of key sensor technology innovations impacting the market, including:
- Next-generation MEMS sensors: Advanced MEMS accelerometers and gyros, technology breakdown, industry landscape, commercial activity and technology insertion timelines.
- Quantum sensors: Quantum sensor technology breakdown, including four SWOT analyses and six technology roadmaps of atomic clocks, magnetometers, magnetic field sensors, quantum gravimeters, quantum gyroscopes and inertial quantum sensors, quantum RF sensors, quantum imaging.
- Advanced carbon and nanocarbon sensors: Overview of graphene and carbon nanotube materials in force, gas, chemical, biological, optical, temperature sensing, and their applications.
- Emerging image sensors: Sensor design innovations, including multiple new SWIR technologies, solution-processable quantum dot sensors, and large area organic photodetectors. Applications, including machine vision and hyperspectral imaging.
- Printed and flexible sensors: Overview of emerging flexible sensor technology produced from additive manufacturing methods using printed functional inks. Applications of flexible, large area pressure, strain, temperature, touch, gas, wearable sensors and photodetectors in automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, and medical applications.
- Silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuits: Introduction to silicon photonic circuits and review of applications of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in biomedical, biosensors, gas sensors, structural health sensors, spectroscopy and LiDAR sensors.
- Biosensors: Overview of biosensor technologies, including bioreceptors, optical transducers and electrochemical transducers, and their applications at the point-of-care. Overview of point-of-care testing market dynamics and market trends within in vitro diagnostics.
Key aspects
- A comprehensive overview of the global sensor technology market, drawn from over 20 IDTechEx reports covering sensor technology.
- Sensor technology benchmarking, critical evaluation and comparison, including over 35 SWOT analysis and 24 technology readiness level roadmaps.
- Sensor technology innovations, including sensor trends in imaging, printed electronics, silicon photonics, quantum sensing, next generation MEMS, biosensors, advanced carbon sensors and emerging sensor materials and designs.
- Identification and appraisal of emerging sensor applications across automotive, aerospace, industrial, consumer, healthcare, robotics, and environmental markets.
- Overview of wearable sensors and key applications in wearables and healthcare.
- Extensive characterization of sensors for future mobility, including electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, in-cabin monitoring, connected and software defined vehicles.
- Overview of the IoT market and robotics, emerging IoT sensor technology and applications in industrial IoT, environmental IoT and consumer IoT.
- Identification of key sensor manufacturers and associated value chain mapping.
- 58 company profiles including interviews with key sensor manufacturers and sensor industry players.
10 Year Sensor Market Forecasts & Analysis:
- 2025 market sizing based on analysis of financial statements and annual reports of major sensor and electronic manufacturers.
- Global sensor market forecast 2026-2036, segmented by sensor technology.
- Ten-year sensor market forecast for established gas sensors, semiconductor sensors, automotive and aerospace sensors, biosensors (2026-2036).
- Ten-year emerging sensor technology market forecast (2026-2036).
- Ten-year sensors for future mobility forecast, including LiDAR, radar, camera, IR and in-cabin-sensing (2026-2036).
Sensors covered in this report include:
Radar sensors
LiDAR sensors
MEMS sensors
Position sensors
Motion sensors
Accelerometers
Force sensors
Proximity sensors
Humidity sensors
Acoustic sensors
Level sensors
Quantum sensors
Biosensors
Printed sensors
Flexible sensors
Alcohol sensors
Sound sensors
Electrical sensors
Optical sensors
pH sensors
Wireless sensors
Body sensors
Heartbeat sensors
Traffic sensors
IoT sensors
AI sensors
Automotive sensors
Consumer electronics sensors
Industrial sensors
Environmental sensors
IMUs
Gyro sensors
PFAS sensors
Methane detectors
Hydrogen sensors
Next-generation MEMS sensors
Advanced battery pack sensors
For the full report details and sample pages, reach out to our team at [email protected], or visit www.IDTechEx.com/SensorMarket.
