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Mining: Where are the hole and the drill? Both ex post facto measurements and real-time control of the drill head are needed. Today’s  magnetometer/inclinometer basedinstrumentation for measurement of drilled bore holes is useless when casing is present and when the rock contains magnetic minerals.

Machine control: The civil engineering business is the world largest industry, but the least automated. Today companies have started to build systems that utilize GPS to control construction machinery. They experience problems with resolution, dynamics, etc., that can be resolved with inertial measurement systems.

Surveying in the building and construction industry: Measurement of foundations, buildings, etc., are needed in places where GPS is not available. This has the potential to become a huge market.

Dynamic measurement tools: For development of products in the automotive and other industries it is important to get feed-back for simulation tools and models. For example, it is difficult to measure all motions of crash dummies with cameras due to limited lines of sight. It is hard for the cameras to measure acceleration, which is the most important parameter for biological damage. It would also be useful to measure how the chassis deforms during a collision to get feed-back for FEM simulations, for example.

Unmanned vehicles and navigation aids: In the future forestry, agriculture, fork lifts, airplanes, etc, will all use IMUs as input devices for guidance to some extent. The use of IMUs for guidance of vehicles in forestry and agriculture is especially interesting where they can be employed for selectively making different measurements. This may be a very fast growing market.

The emergency services: Guidance for firemen inside buildings, police squads during operations, rescue teams, etc, are possible market.