Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine February 2021 | Page 25

25 with the amount of activity . It helps to improve the accuracy of the game and reduce the amount of dispute . “ We also use a lot of facial recognition , as you can imagine ,” says Palos . “ To identify people who ’ ve been barred from the casino , and so on . We ’ re also starting to build out algorithms for dynamic offers and incentives . Say we just noticed that you won the jackpot . Let ’ s send you a bottle of champagne and make you an offer of a free hotel room so that you ’ ll come back and spend some more money next time .”
Casino tables , meanwhile , have always been higher-tech than you might imagine , requiring multiple computers stationed inside crevices and corners to operate . “ But of course , maintaining these computers can be time-consuming and resource-intensive ,” says Palos . “ They get beaten up as they age , and expose the casino operation to high failure rates and security issues . We boiled down the essence of that , and now we have converted to Raspberry Pis , believe it or not , using thousands and thousands of them
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