The report “Thermal Imaging Market - Worldwide Market Forecasts (2013 - 2018)” defines and segments the global thermal imaging market into various sub segments with in-depth analysis and forecast of revenues. It also identifies drivers and restraints for this market with insights into trends, opportunities, and challenges.
The report “Thermal Imaging Market - Worldwide Market Forecasts (2013 - 2018)” defines and segments the global thermal imaging market into various sub segments with in-depth analysis and forecast of revenues. It also identifies drivers and restraints for this market with insights into trends, opportunities, and challenges.
The thermal imaging market is estimated to grow from $3.49 billion in 2013 to $5.84 billion in 2018. This represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.9% from 2013 to 2018. The surveillance segment continues to be the largest contributor for thermal imaging. In terms of regions, NA is expected to be the biggest market in terms of revenue contribution in 2013, whereas Europe and APAC are expected to experience increased market traction, in due course.
The major forces driving this market are growing horizontal adoption, price reduction, low environmental impact and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) differentiation. The significance of the thermal imaging has increased, due to emergence of integrated solutions such as within Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, automotive, smart phones and many others wherein thermal imaging can be leveraged. The use of thermal imagers increase across a range of commercial applications in all regions of the world has been noted as one of the major factors behind continual increase in thermal imaging market size.
Solution providers such as FLIR Systems, DRS Technologies, Sofradir, Danaher Corporation, and Axis Communications, BAE Systems, Thermoteknix Systems, Testo AG and many others are expected to provide integrated thermal imaging solutions and offer better competitive services. The companies in this industry must take advantage of the growing awareness of thermal imaging in the new markets such as Middle East and Africa (MEA) as well as Asia Pacific (APAC). The surveillance, automotive, intelligent transportation systems and services done via thermal imagers such as surveys are the applications having high growth rate in the market.
MarketsandMarkets has segmented the thermal imaging market by type of solutions: hardware, software and services; by applications: surveillance, threat detection, surveys, automation, radiology, intelligent transportation systems, commercial and residential security, personal vision, firefighting, Research and Development (R&D), veterinary and others; by end users: military and defense and commercial; and by regions: North America (NA), Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe (EU), Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Latin America (LA).