Automated Border Control Market Trends

Growth Drivers

• Rising Terrorism - Terrorists use a wide range of travel strategies to reach locations across the globe, which has led to increasing efforts to improve border security, leading to a higher demand for automated border control.
• Growing Need for Security in Seaports - Seaports are "possible targets of illegal activity", therefore automated border control is essential for the secure transportation of products via sea.
• Increasing Digital Transformation- Verification of digital IDs is getting more and more common since it allows passengers to complete the entire immigration process without having to interact with border control personnel in person and eliminates the need for manually reviewing travel documents.
• Rapid Integration of Smart Borders - With the use of automated and biometric technology, nations are implementing smart border control, which helps expedite border crossing, and improve the experience of visitors at the border.

Challenges

• Security and privacy concerns - Automated border control systems typically collect personal data owing to the establishment of biometric databases which raises privacy issues and ethical concerns since biometric data is considered inherently insecure and participants distrust the government's ability to protect it.
• Stringent regulatory standards for the protection of data may hamper the automated border control market growth
• High implementation and maintenance costs can be a challenge for the lower economic region