Inside Asian Gaming

inside asian gaming December 2014 38 Tech Talk G aming Floor Live, showcased at October’s Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, is the culmination of a vision. “We understood the need for a technology to enable collection of data from all our products in real time,” says TCSJOHNHUXLEY Director of Marketing Tracy Cohen. “Previously, we were able to collect data from products in isolation. From a chipper we could get some information, from a roulette wheel we could get some other information, for example. But these products could not connect to a central source to provide an overall picture—it was about pulling it all together.” With multiple vendors’ products on every table this need to Macau’s table games are the envy of the global gaming industry, currently raking in an average of US$19,000 in daily revenue, and with Gaming Floor Live, the innovators at TCSJOHNHUXLEY have unleashed a technology to take them even further, enabling real-time data collection and analysis to maximize performance. Given Macau’s huge volumes, that translates into big bucks in Real Time communicate a link-up of all the information is more important than ever. The potential benefits, of course, are tremendous, providing insights into the performance of dealers, tables and game speeds and highlighting areas and processes that can be improved upon— and all in real time. “With over 800 tables already installed in Macau, Gaming Floor Live is maximizing efficiencies on the casino floor and improving dealer speed to increase revenue,” the company notes. And the key piece of technology that enables it is the TIB—the Table Interface Board—the equivalent of the SMIB in slot machines. Gaming Floor Live enables real-time data collection and analysis of table games, and the information can be viewed on almost any device. Really Better —