Wearable device market to trigger huge growth in semiconductor and sensor

The Key difference between a wearable electronics and smart phones is, wearable device is in extreme proximity to the user. Devices such as smart watch is always feeling the skin of the user and also physical movements/activities. With such a physical closeness to the user of the devices, wearable device is a better option for health and activity monitoring rather than smart phone. So more number of sensors can go into wearable compared to smart phone. With this trend of wearable device preference for health and activity monitoring, IHS estimates the shipments of sensors used in wearable electronic devices to grow by 7x times from 67 million in 2013 to 466 million in 2019. In future, more number of sensors are expected to be integrated inside wearable devices. Due to this, the growth in shipment of sensors is expected to be higher than the shipment of wearable device itself. To give you an idea of shipment forecast for wearable devices, IHS has forecasted wearable device shipment to increase to 135 million units in 2019 from 50 million in 2013. MEMS is the most popular sensor device even now and in the future also. accelerometer, gyroscope, pressure sensors and also microphone are going to be mems-based. Any device which need to be monitoring motion directly and indirectly can be mems-based. To monitor the health there are different set of devices, which i...