Biometrics: the smartphone wave is reshuffling the cards

Yole Développement, the “More than Moore” market research and strategy consulting company confirms, consumer sector, especially smartphone applications are driving the biometrics development: consumer applications are today representing 66% of the total hardware biometric market, against only 2% in 2010. 2021 is showing the same trend with 10% CAGR from 2016 to 2021.

Sensors for Biometry & Recognition 2016 report is the 1st edition dedicated to the physiological biometrics sensors used for biometrics and recognition applications and published by Yole’s MEMS & Sensors team. This analysis combines the most valuable Yole’s knowledge related to biometric technologies and markets, including eye, face, finger, hand, voice and more.

The biometry & recognition report proposes detailed market figures for each market segment: both traditional industries, industrial and homeland/security as well as consumer, the newborn sector. Market metrics are also provided for each sensor: each application has been evaluated according to the performance and related market size.

Undoubtedly biometrics will be so the “place to be” during the next five year. Yole has been tracking closely the latest technical innovations and business opportunities in this field for a while. Its analysts offers you today an overview of the biometric hardware market.

Consumer products are showing the highest adoption rate ever and are the most widespread biometric devices. And this growth is not over. Indeed, according to Yole, biometric solutions’ growth will be supported by a 6.4% CAGR of smartphones units between 2015 and 2021. Indeed market figures are impressive: 525 million units of fingerprints sensors were sold in 2015.

“At Yole we expect a huge increase up to 1,500 million units by 2021,” asserts Guillaume Girardin, Technology & Market Analyst at Yole. “By 2021, fingerprint sensing won’t be the unique biometric solution embedded in a smartphone, the advent of multimodal recognition is on the verge to conquer the consumer market”.