TimeSight Systems, a provider of video lifecycle management (VLM) for video surveillance, announced that the company’s networked video recording solutions utilizing VLM have been implemented in a Nevada Gaming Commission-certified environment for security and surveillance in commercial casinos. Combined with high resolution, megapixel cameras for the highest video quality, the system also provides surveillance of both the gaming and retail/hospitality environment with retention of surveillance data for a period of over four times that required by law, hence extending the property’s risk coverage significantly.
TimeSight Systems, a provider of video lifecycle management (VLM) for video surveillance, announced that the company's networked video recording solutions utilizing VLM have been implemented in a Nevada Gaming Commission-certified environment for security and surveillance in commercial casinos. Combined with high resolution, megapixel cameras for the highest video quality, the system also provides surveillance of both the gaming and retail/hospitality environment with retention of surveillance data for a period of over four times that required by law, hence extending the property's risk coverage significantly.
The certified installation is at Jerry's Nugget Casino, a Las Vegas hallmark since 1964. The installation provides full coverage leveraging new, high-resolution IP-based megapixel cameras around the facility, covering all aspects of the property from retail, to safety, to the regulated gaming environment.
“We had a number of objectives in mind when refreshing our surveillance system, with the key goals being truly forensic-quality video as well as extended retention to protect our business against all types of loss, including regulatory fines, liability, shrinkage and other types of crime,” said Jeremy Stamis, GM of Jerry's Nugget. “With the TimeSight system, in combination with megapixel cameras, we have an unparalleled surveillance environment that reduces our risk as well as our cost, in addition to freeing up valuable space by reducing our equipment footprint by almost ninety percent.”
The TimeSight-based system, installed by TimeSight Systems partner Southwest Surveillance Systems, will replace an analog environment employing both VCR and DVR technology. The combination of the high-resolution megapixel cameras from Basler provides a 30fps stream even in low-light environments, which has been one hurdle to bringing megapixels into gaming. The other obstacle has been storage requirements driven by hundreds or thousands of HD cameras; however, the TimeSight VLM technology slashes the storage requirement by up to 90 percent, making these systems both affordable and space-efficient. The IP-based system at Jerry's Nugget will support hundreds of cameras on less than one half of a datacenter rack, which is about one twentieth of the existing space requirement of the DVR/NVRs. In addition, the casino will be able to extend their video retention on table games by 20x, and at least 5x for the rest of the property's cameras, giving them much greater protection over time to review past events, minimize liability and perform analysis.
“As one of the first certified megapixel installations in Las Vegas gaming, the quality of images is amazing, and will set a new standard for forensic image quality in this environment,” said Scott Bartlett, CEO of Southwest Surveillance. “Most casinos struggle to determine the suits of cards on the table when viewing their video; this system gives the ability to clearly read the suit of cards on the table not only immediately, but months later,” Bartlett said. “Further, the ability to determine denominations of bills passing the cashier or read the labels on stacks of chips in the fill slip window brings a whole new level of audit ability to this market, and TimeSight is driving the leading edge.” “In addition, the property can address not only the Gaming Commission regulations for retention, but offer extended retention for their own needs past gaming, including back office, front office, retail and inventory loss prevention.”