Had the privilege to join Mobile ID World for the first episode of the their new podcast hosted by Peter Counter, Managing Editor of FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World Peter and I discussed the recently completed FindBiometrics Year in Review, delving deep into some of the annual survey’s more interesting results. From the rise of facial recognition and what’s next for mobile fingerprint biometrics, to financial ID and large scale industry controversy, Episode 1 of the Mobile ID World Podcast offers insight into 2018’s biggest mobile biometrics trends. Listen and enjoy …. Mobile ID World Podca ..read more

Acuity Market Intelligence considers 2019 to be a critical tipping-point for airport biometric facilitation. Acuity forecasts passenger acceptance and operator commitment will lead to global market acceleration in 2019 and beyond, generating $1.3 billion in revenue by 2022. As airports and airlines expand their biometric footprint beyond immigration eGates and kiosks, seamless “Fastlane Biometric” touchpoints at check-in, bag drop, security, and boarding gates will become mainstream. Fastlane Biometrics is a nascent market with rapid growth potential. Today, about 5,600 biometric eGates and ki ..read more

Recent Airport Facial Recognition Initiatives in Asia, North America, and Europe Reflect the Acceleration of Biometrics Beyond Border Control. Over the past three days Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson, London’s Heathrow, and Shanghai’s Hongqiao airports announced biometric facial recognition deployments aimed at improving the passenger experience while expediting the passenger journey. These announcements substantiate Acuity Market Intelligence forecasts projecting the global market for “Curb to Gate” Biometric Airport Automation will generate $1.3 billion in revenue over the next five years as mo ..read more

Two announcements in the last two days, confirm Acuity’s recent research findings that the Automated Border Control Market is evolving from a single-point solution market focused on alleviating chokepoint traffic to an integrated Automated Biometric Facilitation Market designed to simplify and expedite passenger processing from “curb to gate”. Delta today announced plans to launch the first entirely biometric terminal in the U.S. at Atlanta’s Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s Terminal F later this year. Sri Lanka has announced that ten Automated Border Control eGates will be d ..read more

Biometric Border Innovation Spreads Across the Globe; 4800+ Automated Border Control eGates and Passport Control Kiosks Deployed in 73 Countries According to Acuity Market Intelligence’s latest research updates, the age of seamless international travel is imminent with more than 4800 Automated Border Control (ABC) eGates and Automated Passport Control (APC) Kiosks are now deployed in 73 countries worldwide. This represents a total of 223 biometric ABC eGate and APC Kiosk deployments across six continents. The global footprint for biometric-based border automation is expanding as ABC eGates an ..read more

Border authorities have embraced digital identification and biometric-based automation to simplify and accelerate border control processing. Acuity’s latest report on border control kiosks reveals that 71 installations deploying 2283 border control kiosks are active at 59 ports of entry across the globe. These include Automated Border Control (ABC) Kiosks, Automated Passport Control (APC) Kiosks, and Primary Inspection Kiosks (PIK). As airports and other ports of entry struggle to keep up with increasing volumes of global travelers, automation is the only solution for border control. Integrat ..read more

Financial service organizations that want to reap the benefits of the digital revolution to improve security, reduce friction, lower costs, and attract the most desirable customers, will adopt biometric authentication in the Cloud as the foundation for enhancing and securing the customer journey. Biometrics are a global phenomenon that financial service players ignore at their peril. Acuity forecasts that by 2022, 5.6 billion biometric mobile devices will secure 1.37 trillion biometrically-enabled payment and non-payment transactions. On-device biometrics may improve the user authentication e ..read more

Acuity Market Intelligence released our updated forecasts for the mobile biometrics market. The potential for consumer use of mobile biometrics dwarfs any previous application of biometrics. Annual revenue from biometrics embedded in mobile devices, biometric app downloads, and biometric transactions authentication are projected to grow from $6.5 billion in 2016 to $50.6 billion in 2022 reflecting a CAGR of nearly 41% with total forecast period revenues exceeding $193 billion. More than 1.9 billion biometrically enabled mobile devices will be in circulation by the end of 2017. This will grow t ..read more

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