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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for agriculture
The DLG (German Agricultural Society) Field Days 2014, held recently at the DLG Crop Protection Center at Bernberg-Strenzfeld, Germany, showcased many new innovations in crop production for the German and other European producers present.
IDTechEx webinar explores wearable technology
IDTechEx has announced that it will host a free webinar on Tuesday July 22nd 2014 presented by Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx and entitled 'Wearable Technology 2015-2025'. The first wave of conventional wearable technology was a big market for electronics on the ear and wrist; the second wave is starting now, consisting of web-connected and advanced technology watches, glasses, headsets, smart skin patches and virtual reality headsets. A thi...
Multi-motor EV market to reach $144bn by 2025
The IDTechEx report on electric motors, which has become a reference for suppliers and users of EV's, has been revised. The report, Electric Motors for Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles 2015-2025: Land, Water, Air, has found that there will be a $144bn market for multi-motor EV's by 2025. Contributing to this is the 8.9m more motors that will be available for multi-motor vehicles.
Supercapacitors and graphene overtake batteries
The worlds of supercapacitors and graphene are converging. That is why IDTechEx has a complete two day nine conference co-located event on these subjects, which will take place in Santa Clara, CA this November 19-20.
Supercapacitors can destroy the lithium-ion battery market
As tracked by market research company IDTechEx and further explained in the recently updated report “Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors: Supercapacitors 2014-2024”, supercapacitors are improving faster than lithium-ion batteries in most respects. A gradual increase in the supercapacitor component and decrease of the battery component is in prospect with IDTechEx forecasting that the global market value for supercapacitors will be...
Wearable technology for animals - IDTechEx forecasts a $2.6bn market worth watching
Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx Wearable technology for humans is all the rage. As “the next big thing”, it involves head-on clashes between some of the largest companies on the planet. Those interested in such technologies would therefore be wise to take a look at wearable technology for animals - from ultrasound-delivering treatment patches and electronic saddle optimisation for horses to collars on many other animals that vari...
Electric Cars Reinvented - $178.9 Billion Market
IDTechEx finds that the global sale of hybrid and pure electric cars will triple to $178.9 billion in 2024 as they are transformed in most respects. Up-to-date ten year forecasts are provided in this new IDTechEx report, "Hybrid and Pure Electric Cars 2014-2024" - unique in revealing how everything about such cars is being reinvented.
IDTechEx quantifies the Internet of Things market
Analyst views of the Internet of Things (IoT) vary drastically depending on how one defines the topic. As a result, there is the potential for much hyping. Having thoroughly researched the topic, IDTechEx has mapped the IoT ecosystem as shown in the diagram below, where IoT centres on things collaborating with things without human intervention at the time. These things have internet protocol (IP) addresses, microcontrollers for local data process...
Why the interest in e-textiles?
By Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx The heart of the e-textile business as it emerges is electric and electronic functionality from sensing to light emission, achieved entirely by use of e-fibers. Components and interconnections intrinsic to the fabric, or at least widely distributed through the fabric, are less visible and not susceptible to becoming tangled together or snagged by the surroundings. An e-textile can be worn in everyday situat...
The race for flexible and wearable phones
Mobile phones and associated wearable electronics are now part of what is called the Internet of People. They will often have very flexible displays, some tightly rolled into a conventional phone body. When pulled out, these screens will gather useful amounts of electricity from the sun as the user enjoys the large screen created with its haptic (feel what you do) keyboard.
A strong future for electric quadcopters
A recent report from IDTechEx, "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Electric UAVs 2014-2024", has been tracking changes in the market, none quicker than the adoption of pure electric quadcopters. The starting point for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is rarely military; it is at the other extreme with toy helicopters and predating professional UAV helicopters and so on.
Wearable technology controls behaviour
The recent fitting of an alcohol-detecting band to a convicted binge drinker in the UK is a reminder of how the use of wearable electronics for behaviour control is proceeding apace. In a first for the UK, the authorities fixed a SCRAM alcohol-detecting leg band to a high risk offender. By Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx.
Wearables creating $50bn investment frenzy
Many giant electronics manufacturers, computer services companies and conglomerates have tens of billions of dollars in the bank that is instantly available for investment to counter their saturating sales in mature markets. Samsung, General Electric and Google are examples and Apple even has $133 billion available.
Challenges for the wearables markets
Last Christmas, there was huge demand, from Japan to the UK, for the neurowear clip-on of floppy ears driven by brain waves to reflect your mood. They would have been played with for one day and then put away forever. Such novelty peaks can be expected with many forms of wearable technology as it enters its manic phase with hugely overpriced acquisitions. Facebook is buying Oculus VR, a tiny Californian company specialising in virtual reality hea...
Conductive ink market will grow to $2.8bn by 2024
The latest report from IDTechEx, "Conductive Ink Markets 2014-2024: Forecasts, Technologies, Players" predicts that the conductive ink and paste market will experience a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 4.5% over the next 10 years. Generating $1.6bn (USD) in 2014, this market is segmented, consisting of many emerging and mature markets. Growth will be unevenly spread with several target markets experiencing rapid growth while others decline.
Report forecasts success for 12,000 developers in wearables
An IDTechEx report, "Wearable Technology 2014-2024: Technologies, Markets, Forecasts", has found that the fragmented industry of wearable electronics will have no clear leaders in what will be a $70 billion plus business in 2024 with 12,000 developers and manufacturers.
Functional fine chemicals for future electronics
The latest report from IDTechEx, "Functional Materials for Future Electronics: Metals, Inorganic & Organic Compounds, Graphene, CNT", looks at the new electronics and electrics from the point of view of suppliers of fine chemicals and associated high added value processes.
Report forecasts EV adoption of WBG semiconductors
In the last century, silicon semiconductor-based power electronics - which control or convert electrical energy into usable power - transformed the computing, communication, electric vehicle and energy industries and gave consumers and businesses more powerful laptops, cell phones and motors. Over the coming decade, that era will begin to come to an end. The full picture, from inverters to battery management systems, is given in the IDT...
EVs and HEVs to drive Li-ion battery business
According to a recent market research report from IDTechEx, the lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery business is growing rapidly to many tens of billions of dollars yearly, thanks to continuing investment in the industry. Their use is widening well beyond e-readers, tablets, laptops and mobile phones with vehicles being particularly important for the future; mainly hybrid electric and pure electric vehicles by land, water and air.
The future of the e-textiles market
According to information from the IDTechEx Research report 'E-Textiles: Electronic Textiles 2014-2024', 24% of e-textile development projects develop better conductive fibres and another 24% concern photovoltaic fibres. 16% of projects focus on supercapacitors on fibres, with several projects seeking multi-functionality on one fibre, such as supercapacitor layers to store the harvested energy from piezoelectric vibration harvesting or photovoltai...