Precision GPS Receiver Market Forecast for Strong Growth
The global mid-and high-level precision GPS receiver market size is expected to grow from $2.7 billion in 2021 to $4.0 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 8.6%.
The forecast was recently published by ResearchandMarkets.com in a report titled "The "Mid-and High-Level Precision GPS Receiver Market with COVID-19 Impact, by Type (Differential Grade, Survey Grade), Industry (Agriculture, Mining, Construction, Oil & Gas) and Geography - Global Forecast to 2026".
The growth of the precision GPS receiver market is mainly driven by ongoing developments to improve overall GPS infrastructure, increasing adoption of GPS receivers in the construction industry, rising technological advancements and GPS augmentation systems, and growing availability of more cost-effective GPS solutions. However, factors such as slow market acceptance for new technologies, heavy reliance on availability of satellites, and decreasing demand of GPS receivers due to novel COVID-19 are restraining the market growth.
The increasing usage of survey-grade GPS receivers by professional surveyors to get high accuracy measurements of fixed locations leads to the significant segment growth in the coming years. Survey-grade GPS receivers are designed to achieve constant network accuracy in real time or static mode. These receivers are capable of generating network accuracies of more than 0.1 m with post-processing and more than 1 m with real-time differential correction. There is an increasing adoption of survey grade in industries such as agriculture and construction as it provides accurate positioning. Rising construction activities across the world is estimated to fuel the demand for the survey-grade segment during the forecast period.
The rise in population in emerging countries leads to the increasing infrastructure development, which is driving the growth of the construction industry. This is responsible for high adoption of high-precision GPS receivers in the construction industry. GPS technology is adopted in large-scale construction projects such as civil construction sites and megaprojects for equipment tracking. Besides, the mining industry is estimated to hold the largest CAGR over the forecast period. GPS receivers are broadly adopted by various applications of the mining industry, which include surveying and mapping land and discovering suitable locations for agriculture, construction, mining, and other location-based services.
The expansion of the urban population and rising industrialization are responsible for infrastructure development which leads to an increase in the adoption of GPS receivers, especially in emerging economies. In addition, the increasing focus on the rising agriculture production in various countries of APAC is also responsible for the growth of the mid-and high-level precision GPS receiver market in the region. However, the rapid spread of the novel COVID-19 has resulted in disruptions in supply chain activities, revenue losses, and slowdown in production activities which have highly impacted the growth of the market in the region, eventually impacting the economy.
(Source: ResearchandMarkets.com news release. Image from file)