Report Highlights
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BCC Research estimates the global market for gas flow meters, sensors, monitors, and secondary flow instrumentation at about $3.6 billion in 2009 and $3.9 billion in 2010. Growing at a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.9%, the market should approach $5.2 billion by 2015.
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BCC estimates the total global market for RFID technologies at about $5.9 billion in 2009 and $6.4 billion in 2010. By 2015, BCC expects the market to grow to $11.3 billion, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.1% over the next 5 years.
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BCC estimates the global market for electronic, electro-optical, and other modern technologies used in airports to have been nearly $8.2 billion in 2009. BCC estimates the market at $10.3 billion in 2010 and expects it to exceed $13.7 billion in 2015, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.9% over the next 5 years.
FOREWORD
Measuring and observing lies at the heart of all science and technology. At the tail end of the recession new growth opportunities in mature markets and the arrival of new green energy markets seem to assure strong growth for instruments and sensors.
Food and Drug Agency encouragement of process analytic technologies (PAT) in pharmaceutical manufacturing can be seen as a bellwether for robust future activity in this sector.
- Spectroscopy
- Machine Vision: Technologies and Global Markets
- Gas Sensors and Gas Metering: Applications and Market
- RFID: Technology, Applications and Global Markets
- The Global Market for Advanced Airport Technologies
- Pharmacy Automation: Technologies and Global Markets
- Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
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