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Arrival of ST and Sony to transform SWIR market, Yole says


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Euresys grew 29 per cent in 2021 to reach €20.3m turnover. The company saw 32 per cent growth in Asia and EMEA, and 10 per cent growth in America.


Wenglor reached a record annual turnover of more than €100m euros in 2021. The firm delivered more than two million products last year.


Shortwave infrared imaging in the automotive and consumer sectors could generate $21m and $3.2bn respectively by 2027, according to market research firm, Yole Développement. Te analysts at Yole also said the industrial


vision market for SWIR could reach $360m in 2027, up from $94m in 2021. Tis is faster growth than the defence sector, traditionally the larger market for SWIR imaging – defence was worth $189m in 2021 for SWIR imaging. Yole pointed to STMicroelectronics and


Sony – two leaders in the consumer imaging industry – joining the SWIR scene as a reason to expect growth in SWIR in the future. Late last year, at the IEDM conference,


STMicroelectronics announced details of its new quantum dot SWIR global shutter sensor, with a 1.62µm pixel pitch and a quantum efficiency of 60 per cent at 1,400nm. Meanwhile, Sony’s SenSWIR InGaAs


products, which reduce the pixel pitch down to 5μm, are now finding their way into machine vision cameras. Yole stated: ‘Teir [ST and Sony] entrance


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might be explained by the growing demand from consumer OEM for new integration designs, such as under-display 3D sensing in smartphones.’ OLED displays are more transparent to


SWIR wavelengths than the near-infrared currently used for smartphone under-display 3D sensing. Yole said the first commercial products


based on SWIR could be released by 2023. Also, because eye safety regulations are less stringent in SWIR than in NIR, SWIR would allow the use of more powerful illumination and generally increase the range and reliability of 3D sensing solutions compared to NIR. Yole added: ‘If SWIR imagers reach a low


price point, shipments could skyrocket to hundreds of millions within a few years. Te SWIR industry could emulate the current 3D imaging industry, where STMicroelectronics and Sony share nearly 95 per cent of the 225 million shipments (2020 data).’ Yole believes that automotive driver


assistance applications for SWIR – infrared


By Thomas Lübkemeier, EMVA general manager


After two years of not being able to meet in person, the EMVA business conference is back for its 20th edition from 12 to 14 May in Brussels. Conference participants can expect a balance of top-notch presentations mixed with plenty of time for networking – the latter being even more attractive after a period when meeting face to face has been rare. The opening keynote, titled: ‘The changing


face of geopolitics in the 2020s’, could not be more relevant in this new moment in European and world history. The technical part of the conference will look at what lies ahead for vision AI and machine learning. Furthermore, image sensor development will be addressed in several parts of the programme, such as in the panel discussion on the role of non-visible image sensors. Cybersecurity and cybercrime are a focus in a presentation, as well as in the closing keynote of the conference, which is given by crime and intelligence analyst and business psychologist, Mark Hofmann. More information and registration can be found at www.business-conference-emva.org.


New members Since the end of January, four companies have chosen to become members of the EMVA. We warmly welcome Cretec Cybernetics, a system integrator


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Edmund Optics now offers optical design services out of its German office in Mainz. This is in response to increasing demand, complexity and diversity of applications in imaging and machine vision.


Fernando Colás has been named CEO of Omron’s industrial automation business in EMEA. Colás has been with the company for 37 years.


imaging has advantages when sensing in difficult conditions, such as in fog, snow, through sun glare, and at night – could begin by 2024 at $4m, reaching $21m by 2027. In 2021, SCD, Sensors Unlimited and Teledyne


Flir shared more than 50 per cent of the 11,000 units shipped in the year, according to Yole. Tese are subsidiaries of defence companies that started developing SWIR technology with the support of governments for strategic purposes – the legacy side of the industry. New quantum dot SWIR technology, not only from STMicroelectronics, but also SWIR Vision Systems and Emberion, could lower costs of SWIR imaging substantially.


headquartered in Germany, which aims to offer industrial machine vision automation in Europe by connecting machine vision, robotics and control technologies. Our second new member is Theia


Technologies, a US-based provider of a wide range of megapixel lenses, including: ultra- wide angle lenses; mid-focal range lenses; telephoto lenses; and machine vision lenses. Pixilm is another new member based


in Tallinn, Estonia. It focuses on bespoke imaging system development and production covering a wide area of services and consultancy, and a product range including multi-sensor and multi- camera systems. Last but not least, EMVA welcomes John


Bean Technologies (JBT), headquartered in Chicago, USA. JBT is a global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food processing and air transportation industries.


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