Inside Asian Gaming

January 2013 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 23 Tech Talk development. Based out of Asia, working with key partners, she will seek to further expand and develop new product solutions for our customers.” Ms Clark and Mr McCarthy spend a lot of time liaising with casino clients in an effort to figure out either how to improve their existing products or come up with all-new value-adding solutions. One of the fruits of those discussions, created specifically with Asian VIP baccarat in mind, is the RFID Chip Rolling Solution (CRS). GPI explains: “By automatically tracking and validating all chip movement transactions that occur during VIP and junket play using non- negotiable and live chips, our RFID Chip Rolling Solution streamlines the dead-to- live chip rolling process by automating numerousmanual processes andprocedures that must be completed prior to calculating commissions and completing individual cash-out transactions.” Mr Gronau commented: “This easy- to-use application automates the buy-in, rolling and settlement processes that occur in baccarat VIP and junket play to ensure that each transaction is fast, accurate and free from themanual transaction accounting errors that can occur during rolling. We are anxious to receive the industry’s feedback on this innovative product that we feel offers significant operational value.” The decision to develop the CRS appears to have been a no-brainer, but it takes a nimble company like GPI to go where others are loath to tread. Emmanuel Gelinotte, GPI’s global vice president of research and development, explains, “I’ve been traveling a lot myself in Macau during the past two years, and this is something I’ve beenhearing repeatedly from operators every time I was going there: ‘Why don’t you do something for the rolling? Nobody’s doing that. Nobody will do it.’ It’s a niche.” In addition to GPI’s willingness to fulfill such niche requests, it’s able to do so remarkably quickly. According to Mr Gelinotte, the project scope was only finalized in May, but a working prototype was ready by the end of September. Optimistically, after soliciting customer feedback, the company hopes to roll out the product by the second quarter of this year. Another product with particular relevancy for Macau and Asia, given their relatively high volume of table game play, is GPI’s RFID Total Money Management (TMM). According to the company: “Combining the efficiencies of RFID with the iV8 high- speed table-game bill validator designed by JCM, RFID Total Money Management streamlines table game cash and chip transactions to enable an increase in rounds per hour while providing increased currency security through instant authentication and validation.” As Mr Gronau pointed out, “Our RFID Total Money Management solution also demonstrates our heightened focus on developing RFID products that improve casino performance and efficiency.” He added his company’s “latest product line-up reflects the invaluable feedback we regularly receive from our global customers.” Kirsten Clark Screenshots of GPI’s RFID Chip Rolling Solution Streamlining table-side transactions—RFID Total Money Management Screenshot of the RFID Total Money Management solution in action