Dallmeier’s Craig Graham pictured at G2E Asia
Te system is set to make its international debut with MGM across all of its Las Vegas properties this summer.
Elsewhere, guests visiting IGT’s systems demonstrations enjoyed a first-hand look at the company’s comprehensive systems solutions portfolio.
Phil O'Shaughnessy, Director of Global Corporate Communications for IGT, said: “Systems have been a fantastic driver for IGT in Asia. Te merger of IGT and GTech has brought together IGT Advantage, Galaxis and System2go, as well as Advantage Club, which has proven really popular in Australia. We’re now adding multiple mobile apps to this offering including Mobile Host and Mobile Responder, along with more specialised systems products such as IGT Floor Manager and JP2go systems.”
IGT’s Floor Manager with Analytics is an analysis tool that generates real-time performance data and analytics. Operators can deploy IGT’s JP2go system to amplify jackpot excitement on their properties with turnkey mystery and Wide Area Progressive jackpot functionality.
IGT has also recently invested in its partnership with Hong Kong-based ETG manufacturer, Paradise Entertainment, owner of LT Game and has bought the company’s Intellectual Property for use in every market outside of the Macau gaming market.
Mr. Bugno commented: “We see this move as helping fill a gap in our product portfolio. We’re very excited about this deal as electronic table games is growing in markets all around the world. Te IP acquisition from a supplier that has been as successful as Paradise, means that we’re able to accelerate into the market with a proven product.”
And while systems took center stage for IGT in Macau, slots will benefit from a change of strategy in terms of new game releases. Mr Bugno explained: “We’re adopting a more considered approach in how we release new titles to the market, whereby we will work closer with particular operators to test new titles for three months, before they are even considered for a mass launch. Our approach follows strategic process of ready, aim and fire - all in the right order.”
In terms of the games IGT is aiming to fire into Asia, there were linked progressive titles such as the Fu Gui Ji Li, San Xing Bao Xi and Shake the Money Tree games, standalone themes on IGT’s CrystalDual cabinet such as 99 Riches, Legends of Chang’e, Yin Yang and Dragon Journey games and standalone themes on IGT’s G23 cabinet such as Money Frog, Imperial Dragon, Jade Rabbit, Ju Boa Pen, Lucky Lotus, and King Koi games. Te company was also fully utilising its True 3D technology on titles such as Dreams of Asia 3D, Sphinx 3D and Aladdin’s Fortune 3D games on the AXXIS 3D cabinet.
Spinning reel S3000 cabinet titles included the I Heart Jackpots, Triple Red Hot 7’s Spitfire Free Games and Hot Hit Rainbow Riches Diamonds games whilst Ascent platform-compatible titles included the Fortune Ingot and Majestic Gorilla games on the CrystalSlant cabinet.
Video analytics the name of the game for Dallmeier in Macau
CCTV and surveillance specialist Dallmeier was at G2E having supplied Melco Crown’s Studio City with what it described as the largest full HD casino video system in the world, involving several thousand IP cameras
Dallmeier’s General Manager Craig Graham said: “Studio City has more than 6,000 full HD network cameras. It is a huge project. We’ve done many of this size now in Macau and the Philippines as well as Korea to name but a few. It’s not the case that we can just mirror exactly what we’ve done at one casino and take it to the next but around 80 per cent of any project of a similar size can be replicated and 20 per cent is adjustable dependant An example of this adjustability saw Dallmeier develop a special camera for Studio City, known as Pit-View, a small HD 1080P camera which has been successfully integrated into all Studio City’s gaming table scoreboards, bringing surveillance cameras out of the ceiling and down to patron level providing superior views of the action.”
Te group is also watching over other casinos in the Melco Crown Entertainment Group including City of Dreams Macau, City of Dreams Manila and Altira Macau, as well as casinos in the Sands and Wynn portfolios. Indeed the Macau success story for Dallmeier began in 2003, when with an international tender the first foreign casino in Macau, the Las Vegas Sands, was looking for a surveillance system.
Customers working with Dallmeier benefit from SyMSy III, a high-performance and future-proof video management system with optimum user friendliness. It offers a comprehensive range of functions, including the display of live images, various search options within the footage, the control of PTZ cameras and an easy archiving of
Dynamic efficiency and blistering speed defines Quixant showcase
Quixant was showing its innovate Q-Port interface at this year’s G2E Asia, which allows a Quixant Q-Port monitor to be connected to a Q- Port enabled Quixant computer gaming platform via a single DisplayPort cable. Tis dramatically reduces the cabinet wiring complexity.
Andreas Behr, Gaming Monitor Director at Quixant Germany commented “We are very pleased to have the opportunity to show some of our new PCAP Monitors, including the new 23.8” 4K monitor with LED stripes. A wonderful example of our leading monitor technology”
Quixant was also showcasing its newest embedded PC platforms: QMax-1 and QXi- 6000; “all-in-one” gaming platforms that utilise the latest AMD Embedded R-Series ‘Merlin Falcon’ SoC with integrated AMD Radeon HD 10000 graphics. Both the QMax-1 and QXi-6000 offer PCI Express based gaming I/O and NVRAM
Leo Bateman, Patrica Souto Rial and John Malin
facilitating all the features which are required to drive regulatory compliant gaming machines in all major gaming jurisdictions.
Use of the ultra-fast PCI Express bus provides a significant increase in available bandwidth for accessing gaming I/O and SRAM/MRAM, enabling improved connectivity and throughput with peripheral components. Tis enables the customer to freely focus on game development and minimise time-to-market for their games.
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relevant sequences. Interfaces include gaming machines, intelligent gaming shoe, point-of- sale, security access control intruder detection system and RFID gaming chips
Te Gaming Interface Server Software part of this application comes into its own in Asian markets with an interface between baccarat shoe devices and SeMSy management system. Te interface software receives data from the dealing shoe via Ethernet and stores them in an integrated SQL database.
Te data of the dealing shoe transactions is linked to the video data. Access to the database of the gaming system is not required.
“We are getting more and more interest in the video analytics side of the system which has involved one of the biggest investments that Dallmeier has ever made,” Mr. Graham explained. “Gaming VIPs are constantly asking what our software can do in terms of analysis and reporting from events such as a foreign card or overdrawn card. Every game action has the capability to raise an alarm including when there is a sequence of consecutive players wins, if picture cards are drawn in consecutive sequence. Operators can now use the playback controls via the mouse or VMS to control the playback of a video. Live and playback text overlay can be placed on a camera overlooking a baccarat table. We have a lot of really exciting things in development in terms of the convergence of video and data which will be ready for the market by the end of the year. We have a trial planned with one operator in Macau and then will be rolling it out to the market after that.”
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