Inside Asian Gaming

January 2012 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 17 Paltronics In the past, when you had to configure a casino floor of say a thousand machines, you literally had to go and type a thousand machines into the system one by one. With One Link 3E, you simply plug in the interface card. It does the auto-configuration directly from the machine, so it picks up all the denominations, all the progressive levels and the identities. Is communication via G2S? [Game to System, the Gaming Standards Association’s common technical standard.] The new communication protocols that are being adopted by new casinos and gaming machine manufacturers are currently being built into the system. The current system is SAS and ASP [a.k.a. A Simple Protocol]. The auto-discovery process self-configures the system. So if you have a thousand machines and you plug in the one card in each gaming machine, you’ll see all the machines pop up automatically on the system. And then from there, it’s simply just a question of setting the parameters, authorising those and deciding how many of the devices you want on the [One Link] system. “You’d be amazed how much positive difference One Link 3E makes to operating a casino efficiently.” The same thing applies to all the media devices on the floor. If you have a couple of hundred end points you simply plug it in, the system auto-discovers and tells you what kind of configuration that display is plugged into. It will tell you what orientation the screen is; what the screen resolution is, and so you can easily identify where those screens are. Tell us more about the media management functions. With the media management applications there are a lot of diagnostics in terms of what you can do to identify issues on the floor. An example is the ability to take a screenshot [via theWeb interface]. I can go and take a picture of exactly what’s running on a gaming device screen. And all of those devices—whether they be two-inch screens or 42-inch screens—all sit on the media system and they’re all controlled from One Link 3E. In the past, if you wanted to see what was showing on a device screen and you were out in the server room at the back of the casino, you literally had to get up, run out to the casino floor, have a look, and say ‘Okay, that’s the right thing’. There was all that effort just to be sure. Now I can just click and identify exactly what’s there. I cango to thedisplay attributes. If I want to rotate a display 180-degrees because someone’s installed it incorrectly, I don’t have to go and get someone to go and unbolt all that display and turn it the right way round again. I’ll just go and tell the screen display to rotate itself. It’s little simple things like that. And this can apply not just to gaming device screen management, but to signs all over the casino? Every bit of signage you can think of in the casino, you can manage from the system—whether it be just for marketing purposes, for running jackpots, for minimum and maximum [Table] signs, all our table latest displays—all of those you can control from here. Tell us something about the media content creation and editing function of One Link 3E. Our program editor is one of our biggest advances on the system. In the past it would take an engineer a whole day to develop a bit of animation. Now, even people without any engineering experience or even any computer experience can create content literally in seconds. Everything is drag and drop. When it comes to having multilingual fonts, these are all built into the system. It doesn’t matter where I go in the world. If I want to do say some Chinese fonts, I can actually just load those from the system. You’d be amazed how much positive difference One Link 3E makes to operating a casino efficiently. Ali Jomaa of Paltronics In the driving seat—One Link 3E is running jackpots and media at Galaxy Macau