Project description
Manufacturing more sustainable European electronics
Limiting the effects of climate change and meeting sustainability goals requires substantial changes to industrial production. More efficiently produced common electronics can make a significant difference. One of these products is cameras found on ubiquitous pieces of technology such as smartphones. The EU-funded AR_GREEN_CAM project seeks to revolutionise camera production for smartphones and other devices. It will achieve this by developing efficient, low-power manufacturing that could significantly reduce annual CO2 emissions while improving production capacity and reducing cost. The goal is to enable high-quality manufacturing in Europe at a lower cost, increasing competitiveness and moving Europe into a leading manufacturing position worldwide.
Objective
We will improve state of the art opto-electronic alignment processes with new low-power high-speed approaches, when adopted by the semiconductors industry will save 7.9 million tons CO2 emissions per year. Building the capacity to manufacture millions of cameras per year with minimal human intervention (solely to handle input trays with components and output trays with finished products), enabling high quality production in Europe at an extremely competitive cost.
We will introduce novel biodegradable-packaging that when adopted by the semiconductors industry will replace 37.362 tons of plastic.
Our current product replaces several components with a single device, the grant from this project will also replace the main camera of the smartphone, offering a dual-purpose universal camera module capturing full-sensor resolution 2D-images (13 and 48 Mpixels) and improved depth maps (1.4 and 5.3 Mpixels). Today’s AR cameras consume much higher power to generate low-resolution depth-maps (0.05 Mpixels) and require a second camera for 2D images. We will avoid 83.102 tons CO2 emissions per year.
We will drastically improve competitiveness and provide Europe with a lead in a new market. With the “grant” financing this disruptive innovation will generate revenue of $13M in 2023, and $390M by 2025. The “equity” investment will scale-up world class manufacturing facilities for all our products to generate revenue of $1.98 billion by 2025 in a new high growth market. Studies by YOLE and Deutsche Bank size this market at $15 Billion for 2025.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivity
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinator
46020 Valencia
Spain
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.