According to the market the company Semico Research survey, although energy acquisition has yet to take off (usually because it is better than assembling the battery does not conform to the economic benefit), but is expected to promote semiconductor sales in 2020 amount to $3 billion.

The driving force will be about $200 million in 2015 and 40 million shipped began to grow.

Energy acquisition system is the key element including the transducer (whether it is hot, photoelectric or vibration), power management IC, microcontroller (MCU) as well as the energy storage element.

Semico Research estimates, as these components of the decline in average selling price (ASP), energy acquisition solution decreases in the cost even if just add to batteries, battery life, and thus lead to higher market penetration.

From between 2015 and 2020, the market will grow at 80.6% CAGR, shipments will grow to $777 million. Shipments of about 40 million, 2015, 2016, is expected to ship 70 million units.

Semiconductor chip market will grow after a 71.4% CAGR in the same period, and the size of the market at $3 billion. This shows that in 2015 about $200 million in the size of the market, is expected to grow to $350 million in 2016.

The first batch of imported energy harvesting technology applications include monitoring of Bridges, infrastructure, building automation and control, and family lighting automation, security and ring system (WSN), a wireless sensor node. In addition, energy collection will also be applied in automobile, mobile and wearable devices continues to grow.

"MCU, sensors and radio frequency (RF), analogy and other components suppliers will continue to develop low power components," Semico Research chief technical analyst Tony Massimini said, "although this to reduce consumption and prolong the service life of the battery, and to reduce the energy acquisition solution load. Energy acquisition solution could also is expected to predict the cycle of improvement."