Actionable Benefits
- Analyze the COVID-19 ramifications on the biometrics landscape and identify the opportunities into all key biometrics markets including government, law enforcement, border control, enterprise and consumer.
- Gain a deeper understanding of the biometrics hardware market and develop a better-boned digital security strategy.
- Gain insight into shipments, revenue and average selling prices for biometric devices based on fingerprint, iris, face and vein recognition.
Research Highlights
- Infrastructure and all on-premise biometric installations have declined significantly with varied levels of decline across different end-markets.
- Many technology applications across all modalities have suffered and with fingerprint technologies experiencing the highest ratio of reduced shipments.
- The explosive growth of remote workers worldwide have unlocked new biometric MFA (multifactor authentication) security options causing a shift in employee mobility and authentication methods.
- Governmental revenue allocation has shifted, law enforcement, surveillance, healthcare and border control priorities changed and de-stabilized during the pandemic, forcing authorities to major cutbacks.
Critical Questions Answered
- How did the COVID-19 affect the biometrics market landscape and how is it expected to evolve of time?
- Which modalities are more prevalent in each vertical and which ones are the most profitable?
- Which biometric devices and markets should implementers invest towards - both for the long-term and near-future?
Who Should Read This?
- Biometrics organizations.
- Digital security organizations.
- System integrators, service providers, biometric hardware manufacturers, biometric software and algorithm developers.
- Governmental, regulatory and standardization organizations.
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