Evolving digital technology along with increasing access to cashless payments will foster smart card market forecast over the analysis period. The growing need to promote a cashless economy has encouraged the production of credit and debit cards. Smart city initiatives have also helped companies to develop smart solutions that could initiate identification and digital payment through smart cards in various sectors like  transportation, financial, government, telecommunication, retail and healthcare.Smart city initiatives will be vital and effective to stimulate the demand for smart cards. According to United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs, about 68% of the population of the entire world is expected to live in cities by the year 2050. These cities will be deployed with Internet of Things devices that will collect data in order to maintain the resources and asset as well as smart cards that will help transactions get much easier. Bengaluru in India, for instance, has been planning to adopt smart cards that could be used for cashless traveling in all the public transport systems.

The payment card industry has introduced the EVM payment card method which has boosted the adoption of smart cards significantly. Increasing focus on security of organizations and user information has transformed smart card market outlook, with the advent of products capable of short-range wireless connectivity and can also be used as a token for multifactor authentication.

Described below are some factors influencing the demand for smart cards over the coming years:

• Increasing applications for hybrid cards

Hybrid cards will witness a steady adoption owing to multifunctional features and several smart applications that will conveniently contribute towards smart card market size. With rapid urbanization, certain countries have increasingly provided mass transportation for public travelling for greater efficiency and lower cost.

Hybrid chips are typically used for such mass transits that demand fast transaction time. Surge in security concerns in association with transactions and personal information will foster the demand for hybrid cards owing to the high level of security possible.

A hybrid card is also useful in accommodating the technology and infrastructure of a legacy system with the addition of e-card technologies in a single card. The product’s easy to use properties along with the high security provision will influence the product demand.

• Surge in use of microprocessors

Rising use of microprocessors in the banking and mobile phone sectors will contribute to the product growth. Microprocessors have their own operating system that is capable of processing data as a reaction at a given situation. The smart card is practical and a powerful tool due to its capability to record and modify information in its own physically protected and non-volatile memory.

Get a Sample Copy of this Report:@ https://www.gminsights.com/request-sample/detail/4312

Emerging markets like E-passports, assess control, PKI and other applications wherein the cryptographic abilities addresses the issues of security particularly demand microprocessor cards, expanding smart card industry scope.

• Growing telecommunication sector

Smart cards are secure elements and are widely used in the telecommunications industry around the world. These cards are used in two major applications like the prepaid telephone cards where the valued memory cards are stored as well as the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), which are microprocessor based smart cards in mobile phones.

Moreover, smart cards are being used with NFC-enabled mobile phones that have incorporated secure elements and are being used for several applications that include ticketing, mobile marketing and other mobile contactless payments. This has tremendously bolstered global smart card market share from sim and telecom segment applications.

The smart card industry has UICCs and SIMs as the highest volume products for revenue and units. More than 100 countries use smart cards after having substituted coins in payphones in order to improve convenience for customers and telecommunication operators.

• Rise in daily consumer purchases

Increasing consumer needs and purchases will stimulate the applications of smart card in the retail & gas sector in the forthcoming years. The card can be used as electronic wallets while the chip has funds in order to pay for purchases like cafeteria food, taxi rides, groceries and laundry services. Bank connections are not required due to the cryptographic protocols that the money exchange between machine and smart cards have.

In an effort to save time and provide easy access of customer service to consumer, the government has been making efforts to use technology. India’s sole supplier of piped natural gas and CNG, Indraprastha Gas Ltd., recently launched prepaid smart cards in order to provide the customer with digital options for payment.

Key market players in the smart card industry like Oberthur, Inteligensa Group, CPI Card Group, American Banknote Corporation, IDEMIA, Perfect Plastic Printing Corporation, Watchdata, HENGBAO and Goldpac Group have introduced advanced smart solutions. Further collaborations and strategic acquisitions will influence the business outlook considerably. Global smart card market size is anticipated to surpass USD 65 billion by 2025.