Innovation for commercial Sensors: From stepping into an opportunity Gap to continuous Innovation

Sensirion is a high-tech sensor company with headquarters in Switzerland. Based on technological concepts developed in the mid 90s at ETH Zurich, Sensirion was founded in 1998. Product development started in the same year. Today, Sensirion is a hightech sensor company, with a highly skilled team of more than 170 employees. About 50% of the manpower is concentrated in R&D. Sensirion successfully manufactures millions of MEMS sensors each year for a wide range of industrial, consumer, medical, and automotive applications. Sensirion is the industry leader for chip based humidity & temperature sensors, mass flow measurement and control devices for gases and liquids, and differential pressure sensors. In this keynote I would like to give you some insights from stepping into an opportunity gap to becoming a leader in the market focusing on one of our product lines, the humidity sensors.