And, smart card shipments in 2019 will rise to 10.9 billion units, up from 8.8 billion in 2014. To put this in perspective, the number of smart cards shipped in 2019 alone will allow each of the world's 7.6 billion projected inhabitants to obtain 1.4 smart cards during the year. It is about equal to the combined populations of China, the United States, Indonesia and Brazil.
"The key end-user sectors that will drive growth over the next five years include payment and banking, e-government, and healthcare and transportation," said Don Tait, senior digital & ID market analyst at IHS. "The market will expand despite declines in subscriber identification cards (SIM), which are used in mobile phones. Slowing growth in mobile phones will cause SIM card shipments to flatten or decline."
That said, a potential threat to smart card growth within the payment and banking, e-government, and healthcare and transportation sectors is the trend toward multi-application cards and mobile devices.
Multi-application cards combine multiple functions onto a single device, reducing the need for multiple cards and cutting down on shipments. Mobile devices such as smartphones increasingly are incorporating devices like Near Field Communication (NFC) chips, which perform e-commerce and other functions that compete with smart cards.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Michelle Clancy
Quelle/Source: Rapid tv news, 27.08.2014
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