Sensor Business Digest focuses on key sensor technologies and applications; and provides data about the size and growth of numerous sensors markets, company profiles, and industry trends.

SBD provides in-depth information about key global sensor developments and market opportunities. The unique monthly newsletter is primarily researched and written by Peter Adrian, an industry analyst with 15 years experience in the sensors and instrumentation field, and is published by Vital Information Publications, which is dedicated to helping its numerous subscribers achieve success in the marketplace.
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Sensor Business Digest Is a Vital Resource

Maximizing business opportunities in the sensors arena today is a challenging task. The vast sensors industry is intensely competitive and very fragmented. For example, our research indicates that worldwide revenues for pressure sensors exceed $1.1 billion, and the combined North American and European market for temperature sensors exceeds $1.2 billion. Numerous organizations aggressively pursue dynamic markets for their sensor products and technologies, while an increasing number of companies seek to gain a foothold in the expanding sensor marketplace through alliances or acquisitions. We offer you a proven tool that identifies and evaluates sensor markets and technologies with keen growth potential. Each issue of Sensor Business Digest provides an abundance of in-depth market research data covering both established and emerging sensor markets of particular interest to our subscribers.

Sensor Business Digest has gained global recognition as the premier source of information about numerous markets for sensors, as well as related systems and instrumentation. Key markets recently researched by Sensor Business Digest include:

• Global revenues for IC/silicon temperature sensors, projected to reach $158.6 million in 2003
• Global revenues for manufacturers of silicon/semiconductor pressure sensors, projected at about $540 million in 1999
• North American sales for CO sensors used in residential CO alarms, amounting to about $20.8 million in 1998
• Global revenues for humidity sensors at the component level, pegged at about $51.8 million in 1999
• North American revenues for Hall effect camshaft position/speed sensors, which totaled about $39 million in 1998

We Have Created a Unique Global Information Network

Sensor Business Digest has forged mutually beneficial relationships with key marketing, administrative, and R&D executives at numerous companies that manufacture, develop, or use sensors/instrumentation, who provide us with information unavailable in the public domain. Some of the significant companies and sensing technologies profiled in recent issues of Sensor Business Digest are:

• Exergen (Watertown, MA), which provides infrared temperature sensors with a true thermocouple signal for industrial and medical applications
• Infineon Technologies' (Munich, Germany/San Jose, CA) silicon temperature sensors for measurement/control of air, gases, and liquids
• Ion Optics' (Waltham, MA) and JPL's project to develop an integrated infrared gas sensor-on-a-chip
• Bowthorpe's Strategy for expansion into key sensor markets

The market data contained in Sensor Business Digest quantifies opportunities for a wealth of sensor products, applications, and technologies. The plethora of key sensor market information provided by outside sources that has recently appeared in Sensor Business Digest include:

• Unit volume for sensors used in automotive HVAC systems, which is expected to reach 77,700,000 in 2005, from 40,800,000 in 1999 (Strategy Analytics)
• World market for sensors in office automation, information, and communication technology, which totaled $2.1 billion in 1998 and is forecast to reach $3.4 billion in 2008 (Intechno Consulting)
• Global market for micromachined inertial sensors/gyrometers, which is projected to reach $360 million in 2002 (NEXUS task force report, led by Yole Developpement, CEA/LETI, MicroParts GmbH)

Sensor Business Digest Alerts You to New Sensor
Developments and Applications

Sensor Business Digest informs you about, and analyzes the impact of, sensor technology developments impacting key industries and applications, including:

• Embedded Internet sensor solutions
• High-temperature magnetoresistive sensors for such applications as oil & gas exploration/production
• Silicon micromachined low-pressure sensors for respiratory monitoring and medical applications
• More versatile, less expensive e-noses for such applications as medical diagnosis, and quality control in the food and chemical industries

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Sensor Business Digest is tailored to address your urgent business development and marketing needs. Each issue provides information that would cost thousands of dollars to acquire in the form of market research reports, and offers insights and analyses that would cost substantially more to obtain through custom consulting. In addition, you save hours of valuable time that would be required to collect and organize this information.

As a subscriber to Sensor Business Digest, you gain access to our ample resources for better understanding the nature and direction of the sensors industry. We are ready to help you locate the detailed information you require, and to act on your suggestions for articles and interviews. In appreciation of your subscription to Sensor Business Digest, we will offer you a free consultation, and a $150 discount on the purchase of other Vital Information Publications products and services, including newsletters, market research/consulting, and mergers, acquistions, and business partnering services.