The global biometrics market is expected to reach $20 billion by 2018, according to the recently released second edition of the Global Biometrics System Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2018 report. While public sector adoption of biometrics trails that of the private sector – as is the case with many emerging technologies – adoption across the U.S. government is accelerating.
The report indicates that fingerprint recognition technology represents the lion’s share of applied biometrics solutions today, and that is certainly the case for government organizations as well. That said, a number of developments indicate that 2014 will see government biometrics evolve more substantively beyond fingerprint recognition – and we are beginning to see that shift is underway.