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INSTALLATIONS
Atronic hails Chain Reaction success Signs4U delivers first sign
A
tronic Systems’ Chain Reaction Slot Director for Schleswig-Holstein, Meik
in South America and more
went live for the Schleswig- Lorenzen, said: “We are always looking out
Holstein Spielbanken group in for new things for our players and we really
their Flensburg casino in April. liked the concept of ‘Shared winnings’ that
Players at Casino Flensburg now Chain Reaction offers.” T
he collaboration between Dutch sign builder
Signs4U & Suzo-Happ South America turns out
to be a very effective one.
have the chance to share in the winnings Meanwhile, Storm International has Last year the two companies joined forces to
with Atronic Systems’ Chain Reaction become the first operator in Russia to install produce casino signs in a new production facility in
Mystery Jackpot concept. Schleswig- Chain Reaction. Montevideo, Uruguay. The high quality signage
Holstein has chosen a Installed in Storm’s Moscow Signs4U is well known for is now built locally and
Chain Reaction jackpot casino, Udarnik, players enjoy delivered right into the middle of one of the fastest
wheel with 12 sectors, the excitement on eight growing gaming markets.
which includes two Chain Atronic e-motion cabinets General Manager Pablo Zampolla looks back on a
Reaction symbols and supported by a variety of new successful first half 2008; "We have just delivered our
monetary prizes starting at game titles from the Atronic first signs to Casino Club, the largest casino operator
20 euros up to 100 euros. library. in South America. We are also supplying signage to
The Chain Reaction bank consists of ten The new concept has attracted players’ the new Sheraton Mendoza Hotel & Casino in
slot machines with a 10cent denomination attention and is gaining popularity among Argentina. This new hotel & casino is scheduled to
and includes two large overhead TFT guests. “While guests experience a new way open August 2008 and is operated by CELA SA which
screens displaying animation themes and of ‘being a part of winning mysteries’, we get is part of the Enjoy Group, the largest operator in
celebration wins. The link is configured to the benefit of added activity on our casino Chilli. During the last months we have also exported
‘hit’ approximately every hour including a floor,” commented Jose Da Silva Rocha, Slot signs to the Atlantis World Casino located on the
Chain Reaction hit every six to seven hours. Director for Storm International. island of Saint-Maarten in the Caribbean.
"I’m especially proud IGT Argentina selected us to
Sweden embraces TITO
be their exclusive sign supplier; this confirms the
confidence a company like IGT has in the quality of
S
weden is a country with a our products and the positive image Signs4U has on
relatively short casino history. the international market."
The first casino was inaugurated Signs4U has also delivered signage comprising
in 2001, its fourth in 2003. The Monopoly systems to Holland Casinos across
four casinos form the Casino
Visimetrics at
Holland. The order consisted of different Monopoly
Cosmopol group, a subsidiary of Svenska signs, including the economic and luxurious versions
Spel, the largest gaming company in Sweden.
Portomaso
of the sign, and a version for casinos with low
The four casinos are located in Stockholm, ceilings. The signs were due for installation late
Gothenburg, Malmö and Sundsvall. August, and no images were available as Casino
When it came to these casinos selecting a International went to press.
form of cashless gaming, the question was Signs4U’s Martin Spies said of the deal: “We have
which one? The casino management chose F
ollowing an intensive product
evaluation Visimetrics FASTAR
range of Digital Video Recorders
have been installed in “The
Casino” at Portomaso, Malta. learned that apart from offering a wide choice of
ticket-in, ticket-out (TITO) as the way forward Forming the core of the surveillance system signs for a single concept, as in Monopoly, being able
for the 1000 slots. Two major factors weighed designed by casino integrator, Correct to meet our customer’s deadline and bringing
in favour of TITO over a card system – its Termination, FASTAR records all video and outstanding quality to the table have also helped us
simplicity to handle (for the operator) and audio content for both gaming and non- secure this business. We’re looking forward to
the simplicity to understand (for the player). gaming surveillance. working with Holland Casinos again in the future.”
Casino management then chose the The solution utilises FASTAR’s flexibility
printer solution of FutureLogic’s GEN2 of storage modes. All gaming cameras are
Little River opts for FOOD-TRAK
combined with the service of Suzo recorded by FASTAR Encoders with data
International. being streamed to external network
Casinos Stockholm and Gothenburg have attached storage systems for full data
now gone live with TITO with Casinos redundancy via RAID5 configurations.
Malmö and Sundsvall to adopt TITO shortly Non-gaming cameras are recorded to the L
ittle River Casino in Manistee, Michigan is
among several new clients who are now
implementing SCI’s FOOD-TRAK F&B (Food
and Beverage) Management System.
after the summer. internal disks of each FASTAR Server “Doing a physical food and beverage inventory for
Roger Jonsson, Senior Gaming Manager at providing an optimum storage solution to us just wasn’t working out. It was fluctuating too
Casino Cosmopol, said: “We are very happy achieve the required quality and recording much. We were looking for a system that would
with the service we got from FutureLogic period. provide us an accurate account of our inventory and
and Suzo during the startup. We had no FASTAR uses the robust Linux operating purchases and flag any variances,” explains Jason
major problems with the printers. However, a system to provide up to eight channels of Cross, Senior Food and Beverage Manager at Little
lot of them were not correctly set up from Video and Audio Recording within a 1U River Casino. “Also, our Finance Department wanted
our slot suppliers and the help from your high physical footprint. Individual quality an interface to our accounting software. Other
staff saved us a lot of time and “heartburn”. settings per channel ensure a fully refined systems we checked out didn’t do that until we found
Our staff also got very good training during system based on the scene activity of each FOOD-TRAK. Now we get accurate information when
the start up and that makes all of us very camera. Image export can include transfer of we need it and the structure to build on. I wish I’d
confident for the future.” footage to DVD. had this system 10 years ago.”
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