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for Roulette, bringing continuity across their live
table games.
CI: When Holland Casino contacted you, what
did they initially ask you to provide?
AC: Initially they wanted a guest-facing display for
their Roulette and Punto Banco offer. They wanted
the Billboard Display System to partner their existing
roulette wheels and use our EyeBall camera capturing
the data. That was the initial brief. However this
changed and evolved, as they realized our ability and
willingness to broaden our offer and tailor it to suit
Holland Casino’s needs.
After we tuned the Billboard application to run on
their Hewlett Packard platform, they asked us if we
could capture the relevant game data and send it to
their data warehouse – which we did, and when they
saw the PitBoss Td Keypad we would use for this task,
and what a neat, user-friendly device it was suggested
we modify it to include an Ethernet interface,
registering each keypad with its own IP address. This
allowed us to use the device on all of their live
gaming tables recording the drop and the float and
sending it, again, back to their data warehousing
system.
So the project grew from an initial Billboard
Display enquiry for Roulette and Punto Banco to
include the data capture from their entire live
gaming product.
CI: Is this your first project on this scale with
this technology?
AC: No. The first project of a comparable scale was
for Casinos Austria where, again, across their entire
estate, we supplied winning number displays for each
of their roulette tables using the EyeBall camera
believed we were always going to be successful. I coupled with the Billboard Display. That project also
think everybody involved in the project experienced a saw us develop new solutions, including our excellent
genuine sense of wellbeing from the close working PitBoss HQ data warehouse system which is capable
relationship which enabled us to find a solution that of accessing group-wide data from a central
was perfect for Holland Casino. operational location – in this case it was Vienna. We
installed something like 70 systems for Casinos
CI: What technology have Holland Casinos Austria across their entire estate, giving us excellent
actually taken? experience in managing large scale roll-out
AC: Holland Casino ordered the Billboard Display installations.
System; the EyeBall camera and accompanying
software. Also, we were asked to modify the Billboard
application to run on their Hewlett Packard hardware
platform. And we developed a brand new user
interface; which we call the PitBoss Td (Table dealer)
Keypad which allows certain data to be recorded and
sent to their existing data warehousing system.
CI: Is this estate-wide?
AC: Yes, it is. We installed the Billboard software
onto their hardware platform for each of Holland
Casino’s 150 Roulette and 30 Punto Banco tables
across their entire estate. And we also installed
about 450 PitBoss Table Dealer keypads on almost
all of their other live table games, meaning that their
Black Jack and Poker tables could record the ‘drop’
and ‘float’ values in exactly the same way as they can
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