The U.S. gaming industry’s gross revenue in 2009 was close to $100 billion dollars. $5.5 billion dollars came from the Las Vegas Strip, followed by Atlantic City, with close to $4 billion dollars.
Close to 40 million people visit Las Vegas every year. In order to remain one step ahead of casino fraudsters and cheats, casino owners have spent millions of dollars on surveillance equipment to protect the casino’s assets. The surveillance monitoring room at the Aria Hotel and casino is approximately 5000 sq ft. with 64 total monitors and 7 individual workstations. Oncam 360-degree cameras ensure that close to 100% of the casino floor is covered 24/7.
Oncam Grandeye understand that a well-trained surveillance team is the casinos first line of defence and with thousands of gamblers crowding the gaming floor on a busy night, spotting the thief requires a trained eye. The Oncam Grandeye 360-degree surveillance technology can greatly enhance the team’s effectiveness, providing operators with 360-degree field of view capable of spotting and tracking a cheat across the gaming floor from one vantage point. If an incident is interrogated and verified and a cheat is caught in the act, the 360-degree camera can track their movements anywhere in the casino before they exit. Eventually the cheat will have to pass through a choke point or a narrow pathway in the casino and that’s where they can be apprehended.
It is therefore critical that this essential surveillance equipment is running continually 24 hours a day –if even one camera fails to operate, a six figured theft can go unseen. Recent reports for a global customer employing multiple cameras indicates the failure rate of the Oncam Grandeye 360-degree camera technology is the lowest in the industry with a 0.25% failure rate as opposed to 4.8% or 6.5% from competing technologies. Every table on a casino floor has four to ten cameras watching it.
The Oncam Grandeye difference
Oncam Grandeye’s success will depend on the professional implementation of a security solution to provide the latest surveillance and monitoring to protect a casino’s critical assets.
A 360-degree solution can make a tangible difference to a casino's security by the retrospective tracking of an incident |
We understand a casino has unique security challenges and must follow stringent regulations designed to maintain the integrity of gaming operations
The overall 360-degree solution involves total situation awareness – knowing everything that is going on without the need for hundreds of cameras (and even with hundreds of cameras you still get blind spots). There is a growing emphasis around the phrase ‘total situation awareness’ and that is what Oncam Grandeye prides itself in being able to provide to our leisure and gaming customers.
A 360-degree solution can make a tangible difference to a casino’s security by the retrospective tracking of an incident. The cameras and the technology enable the acquisition and tracking of ‘suspicious’ behaviour and the interrogation and verification of a potential threat or incident. It is this evidence that provides the necessary intelligence needed to make a measured response to any situation or potential threat.
For a truly modern, effective and sustainable solution it is more than just providing a camera – 360 is about intelligently integrating the whole process and turning it into a scalable solution. That’s the big difference.
Using integrated appropriate technologies Oncam Grandeye can reduce security costs, minimise disruption of operations due to false alarms, and maintain the integrity of gaming operations. But we are more than just words on a page and our worldwide projects are a testament to this. Our customers matter to us and we have built long-standing relationships with many leading casino operators.
