The overall AIDC market is expected to grow from USD 40.1 billion in 2020 to USD 80.3 billion by 2025; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.9% during 2020–2025.

Key factors fueling the growth of this market include growing e-commerce industry globally; increasing use of smartphones for QR code scanning and image recognition; rising adoption of AIDC solutions due to their ability to minimize queuing and transaction time and provide greater convenience to users in making small-value payments; and surging adoption of AIDC solutions by banking and financial institutions to ensure customer safety and security, along with data privacy.

Honeywell (US), Datalogic S.p.A. (Italy), Zebra Technologies (US), SICK AG (Germany), Cognex Corporation (US), Toshiba (Japan), Panasonic Corporation (Japan), Thales (France), and NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Netherlands) are a few major companies in the AIDC market.

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Driver: Growing e-commerce industry globally

Automatic identification and data capturing products including barcoding solutions, wearables, and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions play a vital role in the e-commerce industry, as well as in warehouse management. The implementation of AIDC technology not only helps the e-commerce industry to automatically identify the items, collect the data about them with high accuracy and precision, and enter this data electronically into the computer system. The technology also helps improve the overall productivity and operational efficiency by keeping a proper track of inventory, accounts, human resources, and overall processes.

Opportunity: Imposing governments regulations for adoption of AIDC solutions

Government institutions across the world adopt automatic identification and data capturing technologies, such as biometrics and smart cards, for identification and verification applications. The US is the pioneer in adopting biometric solutions. According to a report submitted by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Department of Homeland Security expenditure exceeded USD 13 billion in 2015. The governments of technologically advancing nations, such as India and China, are committed to improving the quality of services in public safety and healthcare sectors. The Government of India has introduced unique identification cards (Aadhaar) in which biometrics technology is used to provide a unique identification number to every citizen, which has created a massive opportunity for biometric technology in India. In January 2018, the Government of India also added face authentication technology, along with iris and fingerprint authentication technologies in Aadhaar.

Challenge: Malware attacks and security breaches

Security issues such as malware attacks or data duplication are among a few of the major challenges faced by the automatic identification and data capture products, ultimately creating challenges for the players in this market. These security lapses undermine the objective of the implementation of automatic identification and data capture technologies, particularly biometrics, whose sole purpose is to offer enhanced and an extra layer of security. A biometric system consists of image capture and processing devices, communication channels, and databases, which are subject to a wide spectrum of replay attempts and other forms of adversary attacks. The biometric sample captured in the access control application can be intercepted and misused to enable illegitimate authentication.