TrendForce LEDinside's green can cause place the latest "2016 ~ 2021 LED industry demand and supply database", according to the industrial safety monitoring, virtual reality devices and face emerge and iris recognition application requirements, the infrared LED output continues to grow, forecast infrared LED market in 2016 (not including optical sensing element market) roughly $300 million, 2021 will grow to $792 million, compound annual growth rate as high as 21%. |
Research assistant manager LEDinside Wu Yingjie said, security monitoring for the application of infrared LED by far the most mainstream. As countries anti-terrorism, improve safety requirements, cameras must carry infrared LED to have night vision function, further lift the value of infrared leds.
However, due to the fierce price competition LED manufacturers, with more and more manufacturers began to decrease through the chip size and change the packaging forms in order to reduce cost, make 2016 output value for the security monitoring application of infrared LED grow only slightly, LEDinside estimates, 2016 infrared leds in the security monitoring application value of $109 million.
In addition, face and iris recognition is also a new infrared LED applications. Wu Yingjie pointed out that according to demand action to pay rise, samsung Note 7 phones have main iris recognition function, could lead to other mobile phone brands expand import related specifications of the hardware arms race.
Due to iris and face recognition products unit price is relatively high, coupled with mobile payment system of promotion, products such as mobile phones and laptops will be imported, iris and face recognition application will become the main infrared LED output growth momentum. At present, a lot of international manufacturer of LED products used in iris recognition, Taiwan factory LED products mainly used in face recognition. LEDinside forecast 2021 infrared LED used in iris and face recognition product will amount to $359 million.
Rise of virtual reality devices will also be transferred infrared leds output growth. LEDinside estimates, 2016 output value of the infrared leds on the virtual reality devices for $14 million, will continue to grow in the future.
On market body feeling detection device is equipped with functions of the virtual reality can be roughly divided into external emission (Inside - out Tracking, such as HTC Vive), external receiving (Outside - in Tracking, such as Oculus Rift), two more through infrared leds and other components to match the camera to track position. Because virtual reality devices, however, is still in the initial stage of development, the design of manufacturers have differences, with factors such as product development, production plan, will affect the infrared LED the market demand quantity.
