According to the latest market
analysis from Acuity Market
Intelligence, the combination of tumultuous world events and
the proliferation of innovative, disruptive biometric and mobile technology has
created a perfect storm that is driving the evolution of digital identity for
commerce, payments, the enterprise, and civil applications.
Acuity projects that 750 million
biometric smartphones are in use today, representing more than 30% of the
global smartphone installed base. Acuity expects this market to grow to 100% of
the 2 billion smartphones shipped annually by 2018 with 100% installed base
adoption by 2020. More than 800 million biometrically enabled transactions will
be competed annually on mobile devices by 2020 generating nearly $7 billion in
annual biometric authentication revenue.
Acuity also projects that more than 650
million, or 80% of the world’s passports are now ePassports with 826 million or
92% of global passports in circulation incorporating RFID chips and biometrics
by 2020. In addition, more than 611 million National eIDs will be issued
globally this year with this number growing to 786 issued annually million by
2020.
“The proliferation of biometric
devices for consumer, enterprise, and civil use, the explosive growth of
biometrically enabled transactions, and the global consensus that passwords and
tokens have become dangerously obsolete have created an unstoppable force for
change,” says Maxine Most, Acuity Market Intelligence Principal. “These forces
are not only transforming e and m-commerce and on and off-line payments, but
enterprise physical and logical access control, home security, border control,
the Internet of Things, and civil identity programs as well.”
Ms. Most will share her
insight and Acuity’s wealth of market data during a talk at Ideco Biometrics’
“The Future of Who I Am” event in Cape Town South Africa on July 22, 2016.
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