Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector (SPRD) Market - Forecast(2021 - 2026)

 Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector Market Overview

Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector (SPRD) market was valued $355million in 2019, estimated to grow at a CAGR of 12.27% during 2020-2025. SPRD has been witnessing significant growth in application such as border security, fire safety, custom inspector, police and others. Spectroscopic personal radiation detector has become amongst the most common tool for detecting users, identifying the sources of radiation and others. The increasing advantages of SPRD for identifying radioactive nuclides such as nuclear weapons, dirty bombs, orphaned or purposely masked sources in application such as border security is strengthening the growth of the SPRD market.

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Report Coverage

The report: “Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector Market Forecast (2020-2025)”, by IndustryARC, covers an in-depth analysis of the following segments of the Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector Market.

By Application - Border Security, Fire and Safety, Customs Inspectors, Police, Coast Guard, Transportation, Others.

By Geography - North America, South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Rest of World (RoW).

Key Takeaways

The spectroscopic personal radiation detector market registered a major share in border security applications in 2019, as it is specifically designed to analyze the radioactive sources such as dirty bombs, or any other masked sources. 

The North American market holds major share owing to increase in usage of spectroscopic personal radiation detectors in applications such as border security, customs inspectors and so on.

The increasing investments and funding for deployment of next generation radiation detection systems.

Adoption of spectroscopic personal radiation detectors for border security and increasing demand for portable radiation detectors is set to drive the market.

Application - Segment Analysis

The border security application is estimated to grow at CAGR of 8.17% during 2019-2025. According to Security Industry Association (SIA), the U.S borders are deploying modern security technology that can be used for entry and exit points throughout the nation’s airports, ports and land borders. The U.S department of Homeland Security are also implementing biometric technologies and spectroscopic personal radiation detection technology that will play a key role in providing persistent surveillance at the border. The rising need to detect the breaches and any other means of masked sources has led to the increasing demand for the spectroscopic personal radiation detector for border security applications.

Geography - Segment Analysis

The North American region is leading the spectroscopic personal radiation detection market in terms of revenue share, and held a 36.7% share in 2019. In North America, the U.S is highly utilizing new technologies for its border security and customs. In the U.S, the Department of Defense (DoD) has reportedly invested $1bn from the army’s personal budget for the adoption of technologies like SPRD. Moreover, the North American countries like the U.S., Canada and Mexico are collaborating to foster and enhance the border security systems. Incidents like these have led to an increase in adoption of spectroscopic personal radiation detectors in applications such as border security and customs and others. This growth is likely to propel the demand for SPRD in North America region.

Drivers – Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector Market

Evolution of Technology for Border Security

Border management has become an important factor for any country. Most of the developed countries such as the U.S, Germany and so on are widely adopting latest technologies such as biometric authentication, radiation detectors and others for identifying and locating various types of harmful sources or radioactive elements. These factors has led to the increasing demand for spectroscopic personal radiation detectors for locating the unwanted sources such as bombs and also alerts about the radiations that exceed the background level. 

Increasing use of Smartphone’s for augmenting the capabilities of SPRD

The increasing usage of smartphone’s has also augmented the capabilities of spectroscopic personal radiation detectors. This has led to the introduction of spectroscopic personal radiation detector with Bluetooth-enabled to wirelessly send data a short distance to the user’s smartphone. The advancement in technology that is the rise of 3G/4G cellular network has enhanced the capabilities of spectroscopic personal radiation detector to remotely send commands and alert about the harmful radioactive nuclides. Moreover, majority of the vendors are focusing to introduce and design innovative radiation detection systems for detect, locate, quantify and identify radioactive sources. These key drivers will further propel the growth of the SPRD’s market.

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Challenges – Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector Market

Detection of Nuclear Threats

The major limitation that is affecting the use of spectroscopic personal radiation detectors is that the neutron detectors used in SPRDs are small and are not highly sensitive. This neutron detectors are not able to detect plutonium that might cause nuclear threat in sensitive areas such as border areas, fire and safety and others. These key challenge can hinder the growth of the spectroscopic personal radiation detector market.

Market Landscape

Technology launches, acquisitions and R&D activities are key strategies adopted by players in the Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector market. In 2019, the market of Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector has been consolidated by the top ten players – Thermofisher, Polimaster, FLIR Systems, Radcomm, Mirion Technologies, Laurus Systems, Meditron, Kromek Group plc, Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation, ADM Nuclear Technologies and JRT Associates.

Acquisitions/Technology Launches

In 2018, FLIR launched the latest addition in its series of solutions that is FLIR identiFINDER R200-GN spectroscopic personal radiation detector (SPRD). This new product detects neutrons, and also identifies the gamma radiation. This detector allows front-line responders to determine the type of radiation and the threat associated from the radiation. 

Thermo fisher Scientific launched a new radiation detector in August 2019.This radiation detector is a part of the RadEye SPRD-ER Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector which is frequently used for identification by police officers, firefighters, and hazmat specialists. This radiation detectors are also highly reliable and is capable of detecting at high range challenging environment.

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