Recently, Hunting.com has been exclusively informed that Xi'an Zhiwei Sensing Technology Co., Ltd., which is based on 3D visual hardware products, has completed the tens of millions of angel round financing, and the leading investor is Yingfeng Capital. The financing is mainly used for equipment investment and products. R&D and market launch. In October last year, the company received a seed round investment of nearly one million investment institutions.
MEMS is a microelectromechanical system. Despite the strangeness of the name, MEMS is ubiquitous in our daily production and life. From the common items such as smart phones, fitness bracelets, and automobiles to electronic devices such as drones and VR/AR head-mounted devices in recent years, MEMS devices are almost always applied. Its layout in the application scenario is very extensive.
Industrial 3D Vision Core Products
Xi'an Zhiwei Sensing Technology Co., Ltd. takes industrial 3D vision hardware as the starting point, based on MEMS technology, independently researches and develops core chips, core modules and core products with complete intellectual property rights, ensuring product accuracy and reliability. At the same time as the parameters such as consistency and life, the company's products have advantages in terms of volume and cost.
Core chip MEMS micro galvanometer. The chip is made of monocrystalline silicon and is an optical device with high-speed scanning function. Different from the traditional similar products, the chip integrates the mirror and motor required for laser scanning into a MEMS galvanometer chip, which has the characteristics of high reliability, small size and light weight. At the same time, the company's MEMS galvanometer is driven by static electricity and has the advantage of low power consumption.
At present, Zhiwei Sensing cooperates closely with the 4-inch test line, and has the rapid modification and R&D iteration capability of MEMS galvanometers. It has already completed the mass production process introduction at the 6-inch and 8-inch commercial mass production Fab plants. Mass production. Based on the MEMS galvanometer, MEMS sensor developed a MEMS galvanometer module, which integrates the driving and closed-loop control of the MEMS galvanometer into a standard module with high resolution, high reliability, low cost, small size, Easy integration and other advantages. It is widely used in machine vision, active obstacle avoidance and automatic driving. In October of this year, MEMS micro-galvanometer modules have been sold, and users are distributed in the field of pan-traffic and industrial online inspection. Hundreds of small-volume shipments have been completed and reliability verification is performed for customers. When the number of MEMS galvanometers is more than 100,000 sets, the price can be controlled at about 100 yuan.
The core product directions of Micro-Sensing include Lidar and depth cameras. Among them, the depth camera internally uses the MEMS galvanometer module to project infrared structure optical coding, which can obtain three-dimensional point cloud with sub-millimeter accuracy, in three-dimensional scanning, industrial inspection, logistics sorting, insurance three-dimensional fixed loss, three-dimensional face recognition, machine There are dozens of users in the field of vision and so on.
At present, the laser radar and depth camera products are in the final stage, and the specific sales plan is currently not disclosed.
Product size and cost are barriers to competition
Since 2000, the company's core technical team has begun to study MEMS galvanometer technology, and has accumulated a large number of core technologies in related design, manufacturing, drive, feedback, testing, packaging and reliability.
“The domestic products in this field are temporarily blank,†said Qiao Dayong, chairman of the company. “Only on the basis of our products, new domestic manufacturers enter the market and achieve similar technology, volume and cost. It takes about 4-5 years to accumulate, and knows that micro-sensors have the advantage of time difference."
In terms of competing products, taking the depth camera as an example, the advantages of the company's products are mainly in volume and price.
At present, there are two technical routes for depth cameras on the market. One is the DLP of the United States as a structured light projection module, which is expensive and bulky. The second is the RealSense module of Intel Corporation of the United States, which also uses a single MEMS vibration. Mirrors, but not only are priced at thousands of dollars, they are expensive, they also need to be bundled with Intel's processor chips. If the products involve security and face recognition, applications will be limited.
The MEMS sensor itself is a component product, which can be applied to many fields such as automotive electronics, computers, consumer electronics, network communication, medical electronics, etc., and the market space covered by itself is very broad. Taking the current hot autopilot, laser radar and other fields as an example, the market covered by the products is tens of billions, and it is conservatively estimated that there will be a million products.
"The pressure for products to enter the market is relatively small. What is important is that we have to choose a market with a larger volume for deep cultivation." Qiao Dayong said that at this stage, the company is mainly for industrial users, for companies such as autonomous driving and laser radar. Solution providers engage in targeted collaboration and focus on opening up channel resources for leading companies. Due to the cost performance and performance advantages of the products, the channels are more abundant when acquiring users. However, Qiao Dayong said frankly that even if it is not difficult to enter, it will take some time to polish the products if they cover the whole industry, the whole field and the whole market.
In the follow-up planning, the company maintains the research, iteration and stereotypes of products such as depth cameras and laser radars. On the one hand, it develops products that are more suitable for end consumers, thus realizing the layout of 3D visual hardware product chains.
In terms of profitability, the company began selling products in October this year, with a revenue of one million. The current profit margin is about 30%, and the balance of payments is unbalanced. Mainly through the sale of core products for profit.
Xi'an Zhiwei Sensing Technology Co., Ltd. was established in January 2017 with more than 30 teams. Qiao Dayong, founder and executive director of Xi'an Zhiwei Sensing Technology Co., Ltd., Ph.D., professor, and doctoral supervisor, has presided over and undertaken more than ten scientific research projects such as the National 863 Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the Final Pack of Weapons and Equipment Innovation. Well-known experts and industry practitioners in the field of MEMS, once worked as a co-founder and general manager of Xi'an Lide Microsystems Technology Co., Ltd. Xia Changfeng, co-founder, general manager, and Ph.D., led the company to break through a series of technical difficulties such as feedback, packaging, integration and reliability, and completed two rounds of financing in one year. He Wei, co-founder, marketing director, nearly 10 years of experience in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, internet of things and micro-systems, is currently engaged in the field of 3D visual industry, with rich product definition and market development experience.
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