The Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market size accounted for $6.2 billion in 2020 and is anticipated to witness significant market growth with CAGR of 12% during forecast period 2021 to 2026. Sensors for measuring the temperature of a material or a medium for a specified set of requirements make up temperature sensors systems. Sensors such as this play an important role in a variety of applications, including maintaining a specific temperature range for equipment used to store process and raw food, clean other equipment, and manufacture hot liquids. Increasing demand for industrial automation products, growth of process automation industry and the increasing usage in wireless communication are the key growth factors for temperature sensors. Moreover, new technical advances in the Food and Beverage Industry are significant growth factors for the Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market. The growing popularity of thermistor temperature sensor in the beverage vertical owing to the rising need for temperature and safety sensors propels the market growth. Furthermore, integrated circuits deployed across tablets, smartphones and others are dependent on integrated silicon temperature sensors in micro-controllers and other electronics. Thus, the major driver for temperature sensors in food and beverages is the rapid rise of tablets and smartphones usage in the industrial sector as a result of enormous R&D advancements. Rising need for temperature sensors across sanitary CIP, high-temperature short-time(HTST), Flash pasteurization processes will drive the market growth. Additionally, process industry market trends such as miniaturization, rising automation, and the requirement to handle increasingly complex applications necessitate heat monitoring and control. This tendency, combined with strong sales and advances in sensor technology, is expected to maintain temperature sensors growth.
Report Coverage
The report: “Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market– Forecast (2021–2026)”, by IndustryARC covers an in-depth analysis of the following segments of the Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market.
By Type: Contact Temperature Sensors, Non-contact Temperature Sensors.
By Product Type: Temperature Sensor Integrated Circuits(ICs), Resistive Temperature Detector ((RTD) (Secondary standard Platinum Resistance Thermometer (SPRT), Industrial Platinum Resistance Thermometer(PRT)), Thermistor, Thermometer, Thermocouple, Thermostat, Infrared Sensors, Others
By Alloys Used: Type K, Type M, Type E, Type J, Type C, Type N, Type T and others.
By Metals used: Platinum, Nickel, Copper, Tungsten, Silicon, Others
By Application: Meat processing and smoke house ovens, Refrigeration, Storage Tanks, Pasteurization, Piping Systems.
By End User: Food Industry and Beverage Industry.
By Geography: North America (U.S, Canada, Mexico), Europe(Germany, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Denmark and Others), APAC(China, Japan India, South Korea, Australia and Others), South America(Brazil, Argentina and others), and ROW (Middle East and Africa).
Key Takeaways
- IoT has open path for new set of applications such as remote monitoring, predictive maintenance and others. The implementation of these applications require temperature such as thermostats, thus driving the market.
- Emerging applications such as temperature stabilization in food and beverage processes are projected to drive market growth for temperature sensors.
- Temperature sensors are projected to be in high demand in APAC due to rising industrial automation, particularly in the food and beverage sectors.
Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market Segment Analysis — By Product Type
Infrared Sensor segment is anticipated to witness significant market growth during the forecast period 2021–2026. Infrared temperature sensors play a vital role in automated process control for inspection, process monitoring and quality control, by assisting the parent system to evaluate, detect, quantify and process the variety of transitions that occur in industrial manufacturing sites, such as alternation of volume, position, height and dislocation. The automation sector, in particular industrial automation sector is the driving force behind the market for temperature IR sensors. Rising deployment of automation in different industrial vertical including chemicals, metals, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, electronics, machine tools, robotics, and others drives the need to implement appliances or devices that use IR sensors on a larger scale. Utilization of contactless monitoring of temperature distributions and profiles with industrial thermographic cameras in process temperature measurement benefits the market growth. Full temperature assessment and location monitoring is also conveniently feasible with high-level thermographic quality control. With the growing penetration of industrial automation in developing economies with major manufacturing hubs is analysed to be a major driving factor for the temperature IR sensor market. Apart from this, developments in IR sensing technology are helping to streamline device integration in order to make an automated system more efficient thereby propelling the market in developed economies as well. In October 2019, Terabee introduced its first industrial smart distance sensor. The sensor has six inbuilt modes of operation with customizable distance parameters that can be set for fast and simple set-up using teach-in buttons. The sensor is highly adaptable, such that a range of tracking, control, and distance sensing applications can satisfy requirements for various operation. Such product launches further is anticipated to propel the market growth.
Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market Segment Analysis — By End user Type
Food segment held the highest market share in 2020 and is anticipated to witness significant market growth with CAGR 4.3% during the forecast period 2021–2026. The growing popularity of automation, as well as the growing demand for smart wearables, are some of the major reasons driving the growth of the temperature sensors market. The rapid rise can be due to its widespread use in smart monitoring technology in emerging countries. Temperature sensors finds application in heating and cooling, ventilation, fire detection systems, and others in this industry. The market’s growth is being aided by the growing use of industrial automation application. Furthermore, market participants have expanded their product development to meet the increasing demand from competitors. For instance, in November 2019, Azbil Corporation launched a sealing temperature sensor for HVAC building automation. The sensor has a faster response time and increased accuracy, making it a prominent choice for indoor applications. Moreover, rising demand of digital temperature sensor for accurate temperature monitoring across the vertical boosts the market growth. People nowadays rely heavily on consumer electronic items such as mobile gadgets, such as wearables, phones, and tags, among other things in the industrial sector as well. Growing requirement for advanced electronic goods for industrial automation , as well as the expanding need for smart meters in the food and beverage industry, propels the consumer electronics application. Thus, the increasing use of these items necessitates the inclusion of in-built digital temperature sensors. These factors thus contributes towards the enhancement of market expansion.
Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market Segment Analysis — Geography
APAC region is estimated to witness the highest market growth rate of CAGR 12.4% during the forecast period 2021–2026. The market growth in this region is attributed to growing application of temperature sensors in beverage end user vertical. Moreover, increasing demand towards thermal imaging systems within the sector, and others benefits the market growth. Furthermore, increasing industrial automation, especially within the food & beverages sectors, is expected to drive the demand for temperature sensors in APAC. China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Australia are a few major countries that are contributing to the increase in demand for temperature sensor market in the APAC region. Such initiatives will further boost the demand for temperature sensors within the market in the near future. Additionally, with government funding on improving safety standards towards industrial procedures, there is increasing demand towards thermal imaging systems for monitoring various safety solutions. Such factors are anticipated to create high growth for temperature sensors within medical applications in order to provide efficient quality safety standards. In 2020, China’s Jiuyou Fund had announced of investing an amount of SEK 40 million ($ 4 million) in a Swedish based plastic passive infrared sensor manufacturer, JonDeTech Sensors AB. The sensor can be used for a range of applications including car heat surveillance, temperature surveillance for smartphones, fire detection and wearable and many others. In March 2020Emerson Electric Co., a provider of automated and commercial & residential solutions to a variety of sectors, introduced the Rosemount 214C temperature sensors. The new temperature sensors are equipped with a choice of thermocouple types and element combinations. This product launch assists the firm in strengthening its product portfolio. Such investments and product launches further will propel the market growth in this region during the forecast period 2021–2026.
Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market Drivers
Rising adoption of temperature sensors in Automation
Temperature sensors are used in the industrial sector to detect the temperature of an industrial process, storage temperature, and air to guarantee optimal operation. Automation temperature sensors usually consist of either a thermistor, thermocouple, resistance temperature detector or an infrared device. The demand for industrial automation is increasing as the rising wages and need for efficiency are driving a shift towards augomation growth. Furthermore, the global adoption of improved safety solutions, the rapid development of robotics, and the advancement of sensor fusion technology will all provide new opportunities for the automation temperature sensor market throughout the projected period.
Rising deployment across Processing Plants
Processing plants create a lot of heat, which might jeopardize the end product stability and integrity. As a result, there’s a higher need for temperature sensors, which may assist detect anomalous temperatures and monitor power incursion and humidity throughout the process and storage facilities. The temperature sensor market benefits from the increased demand for processed food across the world which is driving the need for increased food and beverage processing plants.
Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market Challenges
Low sensitivity towards external environment is anticipated to hinder the Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market growth.
Some of the temperature sensor types have a limited temperature range, which leads to device failure and increased expenses. For instance, Resistive Temperature Detectors (RTD) have very poor thermal sensitivity, that is, a change in temperature only produces a very small output change. Thus, low sensitivity to the external environment is one of the issues limiting market growth, which has a negative influence on the adoption of these sensors for industrial applications.
Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market Landscape
Partnerships and acquisitions along with product launches are the key strategies adopted by the players in the Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market. As of 2020, the market for Food And Beverage Temperature Sensor Market is consolidated with the top players including TE Connectivity, Texas Instrument, On Semiconductor, Honeywell International, Inc, ABB Group, Robert Bosch GmbH, Omega Engineering, ABLIC Inc, Yokogawa, Instrumentation Dynatherm Inc. and others.
Acquisitions/Technology Launches/Partnerships
In Feb 2020, Texas Instruments has added linear thermistors to its temperature sensing portfolio, which are up to 50% more accurate than negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistors. The greater precision of TI’s thermistors allows operating closer to the temperature limitations of the other components and the system as a whole. It can help engineers maximize performance while reducing bill-of-materials (BOM) and total solution cost.
In November 2019, Azbil Corporation launched a sealing temperature sensor for HVAC building automation. The sensor has a faster response time and increased accuracy, making it a prominent choice for indoor applications.
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