GERMAN STREET GAMING Analysis
recycler whose dimenions allow it to be placed in the smallest of AWPs.
The JCM EBA 34 acceptor plays an integral part in the Merkur Dispenser 100 from Gauselmann’s Merkur Gaming. The quoted number of this product in the market place is over 45,000. Merkur Gaming stated excellent feedback from the market. The fact that four different denominations of notes totaling up to 102 in number can be paid back make this an ideal product for the German AWP market. Fitting a banknote recycler reduces coin starvation and so saves operators time and money. This is particularly the case in the food and drinks sector as operators are rarely on site and usually cover a wide geographical region. Thus, visiting an AWP to refill it costs time and money and by the time the AWP is refilled, the player is most probably long gone. Many operators in the food and drinks sector desire to have their machine park fitted 100 per cent with a banknote recycler.
The greatly increased coin capacity of German AWPs saw the requirement of storing a large amount of coins. This saw the birth of the hopper market for German AWPs. Money Controls was exhibiting at the IMA with a wide product range. Their Universal Hopper is the standard coin payout hopper for AWPs manufactured by Löwen Entertainment and Crown Technologies. The General Manager of Money Controls Germany, Heino Schlichting, was present for the last time at the IMA, as he will be entering retirement in the summer after over 20 years at Money Controls.
was on display. This banknote recycler can change four denominations and has the unique loader feature – feeding up to 250 notes of the most popular note back into the recycler - thus preventing note starvation – a major issue in this market. GeWeTe offers the BNR in several change machines and is very pleased with this product.
JCM was showcasing its new iVizion banknote reader, the successor to the popular UBA. The new Contact Image
Sensor (CIS) offers very powerful note scanning technology, enabling very high true note accept rates and very quick accept rates. The electronic and mechanical anti-strimming features ensure an excellent defence against unwanted visitors. The banknote recycler UBA RC created much interest at the IMA. It has two compartments for note recycling – each offering a 100 note capacity. The simple refilling feature came over very well. The UBA RC adds to the Vega from JCM – a 30 note banknote
G3 I APRIL 2011 I PAGE 63 (Top) Johannes
Weissengruber and Christian
Weissengruber of
APEX gaming - The Pinnacle WM has been specifically
developed for the German market.
(Above) The MEI team at the IMA
The news at the Money Controls stand was the acquisition of Money Controls by Crane. Money Controls now belongs to the Crane Payment Solutions division. Therefore, Money Controls is now a sister company of NRI and CashCode. CashCode was represented on the NRI stand. Management of both Money Controls and NRI confirmed that next IMA the Crane Payment Solutions division will be exhibiting from only one stand, united together. NRI continues to play a dominant role in coin handling. Their electronic coin validator G40 / v² Eagle is the standard choice with Löwen Entertainment and Crown Technologies and one of the two choices of coin validator for the Gauselmann Group. The service tool Henri+ allows operators to simply download information into the whole range of NRI and CashCode products. The new v² pelicano is a very clever product as it provides a brand new solution to machine manufacturers, whereby bulk coin input is a requirement – e.g. for change machine manufacturers. The present solution to-date is to have a
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