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PREMIER ELECTRONICS
A Secure Entrance
The world's largest casino, The Venetian Macau, uses facial
recognition technology to recognise it huge number of staff and allow
them entrance to the building. It's fast, simple, and saves on extra
staffing at security level. Darryl Coffey, Managing Director of UK-based
Premier Electronics, talks to Casino International about casino security
and facial recognition packages…
P
remier Electronics is a distributor of CCTV, Darryl Coffey: Speed of access. The biggest
network video recorders, digital video problem of most biometrics is time to get through;
recorders and biometric access controls; you can go to Heathrow and see their 'fast track'
with so many strings to their bow, it's fair to technology, you could try that and just time the
call them experts in the field of casino people going through, I’ve seen times from 30
security. The latest technology in their field revolves seconds to 40 seconds. If you’re working at trying to
around facial recognition, which has been get your staff in, it may involve putting through
implemented in the world's largest casino, in Macau, several thousand staff at the start of each shift at the
for identifying staff; around 100 readers are in place Venetian, so you’re going to have queues around the
at The Venetian. MD Darryl Coffey talked to us about block with times like that to get an individual
the system, and how it can help a casino's security. through. There's a bank in Switzerland where they
bring in 1200 people at the start of the day, and
Casino International: What – looking particularly they’ve installed A4 Vision (aka A4 Bioscript), facial
at the biometric side – are the key benefits for readers, because of the speed of access.
installation of the facial recognition system?
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