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.

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).

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.