One trend that already appears to be well underway is “Organizations embracing the benefits of the cloud”. With Acuity Market Intelligence having recently predicted massive growth in cloud-based biometric transactions, and Entrust Datacard having just joined the Cloud Security Alliance, it’s clear that others in the digital identity industry are also anticipating considerable rates of adoption for cloud services in the year to come.

Acuity Market Intelligence and its Principal Analyst, Maxine Most, were among the earliest industry experts to predict the full extent of the mobile biometrics revolution, and they have kept on the ball over the past year.

According to recent research from Acuity Market Intelligence, use of automated border control kiosks has increased by 71 percent CAGR over the last four years.

More than 5.5 billion biometrically-enabled mobile devices will create a global platform that supports one trillion cloud-based biometric transactions annually by 2022, according to new research from Acuity.

“By 2022 more than 5.5bn biometrically-enabled mobile devices will create a global platform that supports one trillion cloud-based biometric transactions annually… Acuity projects annual biometric transaction revenue will increase from US$474m in 2017 to $18bn in 2022 exceeding a 100% CAGR.”