HIKMICRO is extending its push into industrial instrumentation with the LRG10 radar level meter, a product that signals a broader attempt to move beyond its better-known thermal and acoustic tools and into core process measurement. The launch adds continuous level monitoring to an instrumentation line HIKMICRO only began assembling in 2025, when it entered the sector with Coriolis and ultrasonic flow meters.
The technical specification is pitched at serious plant applications rather than at entry-level monitoring. HIKMICRO says the LRG10 uses 80 GHz FMCW radar, a 3° beam angle, and measurement accuracy of up to ±2 mm, with a maximum range of 120 m across liquids, slurries, and bulk solids. The company is also leaning heavily on AI-based false echo suppression and interference shielding, aiming to hold measurement stability in tanks and vessels where dust, steam, agitation, foam, or volatile gases usually complicate the signal.
It is a sensible product choice for a company trying to establish credibility in instrumentation quickly. Radar level measurement sits at the intersection of process control, storage management, and safety, which means a capable sensor can find work across water, chemicals, food production, life sciences, petrochemicals, and energy infrastructure. HIKMICRO is also emphasising fast response, remote setup, Bluetooth-enabled configuration, and multiple antenna and mounting options, all of which speak to retrofit practicality rather than laboratory performance.
Stefan Li, Overseas Market Director at HIKMICRO, said: “Our strategy is to make high-performance instrumentation more accessible without any compromise in quality. By leveraging our expertise, HIKMICRO measurement instruments solves real-world industrial problems while supporting the wider industry shift toward digitalized, data-driven operations.”
The more interesting industrial angle is where the product sits inside HIKMICRO’s wider platform story. The company now describes its industrial offer as spanning temperature, flow, level, and pressure, alongside established strengths in thermal imaging and acoustic sensing. That allows it to pitch a combined stack for production control, predictive maintenance, and safety, rather than selling the LRG10 as an isolated instrument. Plants already trying to merge condition monitoring with process visibility will understand the logic immediately.
There is still a commercial hurdle. Radar level is a mature and highly competitive market with entrenched instrumentation suppliers, and HIKMICRO will need more than a neat specification sheet to prise open process accounts. Its argument is likely to rest on in-house chip design, algorithm development, scale manufacturing, and aggressive price-performance positioning — an approach that has already helped it build momentum in adjacent sensing markets.
For now, the LRG10 looks less like a one-off launch than a marker of intent. HIKMICRO is no longer content to sit at the edge of industrial monitoring; it wants a place in the measurement loop itself. The company will show the meter at Hannover Messe 2026, Hall 27, Stand G84, and product details are available on the LRG10 product page.
