China's smart instrument industry development

It is understood that the development of domestically-manufactured smart meters began in the early to mid-1980s and has now undergone a development process of nearly 30 years. It should be said that China is at the mid-level of smart meter development and is advancing to the advanced level, and it also has some intelligence. Instrumentation technology has reached the advanced stage, that is, the international advanced level. What is the trend of domestic smart meter industry development?

First, the domestic demand for smart meters is strong China's instrument industry as a whole compared with developed countries have a gap of 10 to 15 years, especially the gap between high-end products may be greater, the status quo of domestic smart meters is generally consistent with this.

However, in the developing countries, China is the country with the largest scale, the most complete varieties, and the most comprehensive strength in the instrumentation industry. In recent years, compared to the global growth rate of instrumentation of 3% to 4%, China has been in the 11th five-year period. Except for the impact of the global financial crisis, the growth rate in 2009 was only 8.9%. In the other years, the growth rate was between 20% and 30%. It can be seen that the development of the instrumentation industry in China is very fast.

The strong domestic market demand for smart meters is a driving force for the development of domestic smart metering technologies. As a result, China’s smart metering technology has a large gap with foreign advanced technologies, but this gap is gradually narrowing.

In recent years, China's smart instrumentation technology has achieved certain breakthroughs in its application. Some middle and low-end smart meter products have scale advantages and international market competitiveness. For example, the production capacity of digital multimeters and household electric energy meters accounts for more than half of the world's total. At present, the export volume of electric energy meters exceeds 300 million U.S. dollars and the water meter exceeds 100 million U.S. dollars. High-end scientific instruments represented by mass spectrometers have made significant progress. Domestic product color-measuring equipment for foreign product competition. In terms of international standards related to smart meters, in recent years, two standards, the Ethernet EPA fieldbus for factory automation and the WIA-PA wireless network for process automation, have been proposed by domestic scientific and technical personnel and incorporated into international standards, enhancing Chinese instruments. Instrument industry in the international right to speak.

Second, the development of strategic emerging industries to provide a broad platform China's industry, agriculture, science and technology has been developed at a rate several times higher than the world average speed for more than 30 years, China's new large-scale projects used in smart instruments and control systems have advanced At the world leading level. In the 12th Five-Year Plan period or in the future, although China's overall development rate will be somewhat controlled, it will maintain a high level. China has provided the fastest growing and largest strategic emerging industry in the world, and also provided the world's largest smart meter market. This has provided domestic smart meter manufacturers with a place to use. The key lies in the domestic enterprises. Can you grasp these opportunities?

At present, the development of strategic emerging industries such as new energy, high-speed railways, and smart grids has provided a broader platform for China’s smart meters. The development of these fields is currently experiencing a period of rapid growth in China, especially in the areas of high-speed rail and new energy. , The domestic market is big and mouth-watering. Therefore, as long as China-made smart meters seize opportunities and meet challenges, it is very likely that domestic smart meters will take a step forward in these areas, starting from the occupation of the domestic market and further expanding into the global market.

Third, rely on innovation to promote further development and breakthroughs in China's smart instrument industry In order to achieve further development and breakthroughs, I believe that the urgent need to solve the key issues are as follows: to improve innovation, instrumentation and the trend is to continuously use new Principles of operation, use of new materials and new components, such as the use of ultrasonic, microwave, infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, superconductivity, laser, ray and other principles and the use of various new types of semiconductor sensitive components, integrated circuits, integrated optical circuit, optical fiber and other elements Devices.

In this regard, enterprises must cooperate more with schools and scientific research institutes; organize research units, production units and even units to use collaborative research to jointly develop key products with urgent user needs; improve the industrialization of smart meters, and formulate relevant smart meters. The industry standards, speed up the intelligent instrument industry personnel training; emphasis on product engineering application technology, timely summing up experience, continuous improvement of products, improve product quality; on the application of domestic smart instruments successful products, increase publicity efforts to expand the impact.

With the development of energy conservation, consumption reduction, low-carbon economy, civilian production, and strategic emerging industries, restructuring and transformation have become a national long-term national policy, and have driven a number of wind power, nuclear power generation, Internet of Things, smart grid, high-speed rail and rail transit, etc. With the rapid development of emerging industries, the development of these industries has brought new opportunities and markets for the instrumentation industry. Driven by high technology, instrumentation is entering a truly digital, intelligent, and networked era. The spring of smart meter development has arrived.