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The smartcard market
The Eurosmart 2009 figures and 2010 forecast
News from EUROSMART
The CARTES & IDentification market sheets

Market Information

The smartcard market

The resilience of the Smart Security Industry to the economic crisis in 2009 has been confirmed - Further growth in Smart Secure Devices shipments is expected in 2010.

All market segments showed positive volume growth in 2009, demonstrating the resilience and capacity of innovation of our Industry. The main sources of growth by market segment were:

Telecom

GSM penetration in emerging markets is fueling steady growth in volume;
In mature markets such as Europe and the USA, the market growth comes from services requiring additional SIM cards, i.e. subscribers using more than one SIM card in additional devices such as netbooks and USB 3G+ keys and from machine to machine (M2M).

Financial services

Sustainable growth opportunities thanks to EMV migration, given the fact that only 20% of the cards already deployed in this segment are chip cards;
Second driver is contactless dual interface that enable convenient and fast payment and mass transit applications;
Retailers offer innovative payments and loyalty services that will contribute to contactless acceptance.

Government and Healthcare

Multiplication of Government ID tenders worldwide and continuous e-Passport deployment;
Other ID applications such as driving licenses, healthcare and electronic services to citizens are participating to the solid growth of this market segment;
Biometry is a vector of innovation in this area.

Eurosmart presents twice a year its market analysis and vision of the Smart Security market worldwide.
Eurosmart figures for 2009 global smart cards shipments, including secure contactless and 2010 forecast are presented in the tables below. The memory based smart security devices have largely been overtaken by the more secure and versatile microprocessor based smart security devices. In the future, Eurosmart will therefore not detail the corresponding shipments and forecasts.

*source: Eurosmart figures and forecasts

The Eurosmart 2009 figures and 2010 forecast

2009 Global Shipments

global SHIPment (Millions of units - Mu)
*General assembly - munich - 20 may 2010*
Sectors	Memory	Microprocessor
Telecom	300	3,400
Financial services / Retail / Loyalty	30	750
Government / Healthcare	170	160
Transport	160	40
Pay TV	-	100
Others (including Corporate ID)	80	70
Total 2009	740	4,520
TOTAL 2009 : 5 260

2009 Secure Contactless Market

secure microprocessor contactless (Millions of units - Mu)
*General assembly - munich - 20 may 2010*
Sectors	Microprocessor
Financial services	120
Government / Healthcare	75
Transport	40
Others	30
Total 2009	265

2010 forecasts

microprocessor
*General assembly - munich - 20 may 2010*
	Microprocessor
Telecom	3,700
Financial services / Retail / Loyalty	860
Government – Health care	200
Transport	50
Pay TV	110
Others (including Corporate ID)	75
TOTAL 2010	4,995

News from EUROSMART

Eurosmart launches its new Smart Security Glossary in order to explain the key concepts that are relevant to the Smart Security Industry (View the Glossary)

Video interviews of Eurosmart members illustrate some of these key concepts (View the video interviews).

As an example, Eurosmart defines Smart Machine-to-Machine:

M2M stands for Machine to Machine communication. It can be defined as an eco-system allowing the communication between two pieces of equipment by exchanging data over a wireless network or by direct (wired) connection without human intervention. When at least one piece of equipment includes a Smart Secure Device as defined by Eurosmart, it can be quoted as a Smart M2M eco-system enabling identification, control or transaction with higher security level.

See more information on M2M in the interview with Jean-Pierre Delesse

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The CARTES & IDentification market sheets

Biometrics

In relation to security, the most dynamic sector at the moment is control of access to public and private buildings, as well as identity verification by measurement of a physical characteristic (biometric passport, electronic passport, Citizens' ID).
Find out more about the Biometrics market

Manufacturers of terminals and readers

Manufacturers of payment terminals depend on the development of the banking sector. They are split between Ingenico (40% of market share), Verifone (36%) and Hypercom (10-12%).

Find out more about manufacturers of terminals and readers market

Identity and security

Contactless technology is unavoidable when talking about secure ID. Culturally, digital procedures and electronic signatures still need to win users' trust.

Find out more about the identity and security market

Cards, smartcards and contactless

Memory card, Microprocessor card (or microcontroller), Contactless cards

Find out more about the different types of cards

Smartcard manufacturers

Smartcard manufacturers have been through a significant consolidation phase and face increasing globalization of the industry.
Find out more about smartcard manufacturers

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