Table Stakes: Waterproofing is the New Must Have in MEMS & Sensors
By 2020 there will be over 30 billion IoT devices, surpassing the human population by 5X, and growing to 75 billion by 2025. Each of these IoT devices contains MEMS or sensors that are critical for the product to function. The majority of these internal MEMS and sensors will be subject to varying environmental, industrial and in-home challenges including rain, humidity, salt fog and more. The result of this exposure will compromise device integrity, ultimately leading to failure and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs, downtime and brand damage. For mission-critical applications, the net effect could even put lives at risk.Manufacturers and brands alike need to address this growing threat as MEMS and sensors continue to push the envelope in terms of diverse applications in a wide variety of environments. Electronic device reliability and durability are no longer an option, but a requirement.