Smart Table Wireless Sensor Cashless Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional casino systems face challenges in facilitating seamless transitions between electronic gaming machines (EGMs) and table games due to disparities in wagering currencies, where EGMs use cash or tickets, while table games primarily use chips, leading to inefficiencies in currency exchange and player convenience.
Innovation Solution
A smart table system equipped with wireless sensors, a table management device, and RFID technology allows for wireless connections with mobile devices to manage player positions, enable ticket-to-chip conversions, and facilitate digital wallet transactions, enabling cashless buy-ins and cash-outs, as well as secondary wagering options.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional cash exchange methods are used at table games, then players can acquire chips through physical cash handling, but the process is time-consuming and reduces operational efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical cash handling system with an electronic ticketing and wireless communication system. Players use mobile devices to communicate with the table management system, eliminating the need for physical cash counting and exchange. The system automatically processes chip purchases through wireless transactions between mobile devices and the table management device.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables players to independently initiate chip purchases using their mobile devices without requiring dealer intervention for cash handling. Players can request chips, receive them, and the system automatically updates the transaction record, reducing the time both players and dealers spend on cash exchange activities.
2Reliability
If physical cash is used for chip exchange, then transactions are straightforward, but security risks increase due to cash handling and counting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical cash with electronic ticket representations and wireless communication protocols. Transactions are recorded digitally in the table management system, eliminating security vulnerabilities associated with physical cash handling, counting, and storage. The system maintains secure electronic records of all chip exchanges.
3Measurement precision
If manual chip counting is performed by dealers, then accuracy can be maintained, but operational complexity and time requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual chip counting with an automated wireless communication system. Mobile devices communicate directly with the table management system to electronically request and receive chips, eliminating the need for manual counting entirely. The system automatically tracks chip inventories and processes transactions without human intervention in the counting process.
4Reliability
If players must go to the cage for cash-out, then chip redemption is secure, but player convenience and time efficiency are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables players to initiate cash-out requests directly from the table using their mobile devices. The table management system processes the redemption request, verifies the chip inventory, and completes the transaction electronically or through automated dispensing, allowing players to cash out at the table without traveling to the cage.
Solution Approach 2:
The table management system acts as an intermediary between the player's mobile device and the cage system. It receives cash-out requests, validates chip holdings, and coordinates the redemption process, maintaining security protocols while enabling convenient table-side cash-out operations.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances player convenience by allowing seamless currency exchange between EGMs and table games, reduces the need for physical cash handling, and improves operational efficiency by automating chip counting and verification processes.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of wireless sensors. Each wireless sensor is associated with a respective player position of the plurality of player positions, and each wireless sensor is configured to detect a mobile computing device of a player
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes a smart table that defines a plurality of player positions and that includes a plurality of wireless sensors. Each wireless sensor is associated with a respective player position of the plurality of player positions. The system is configured to determine, using a wireless sensor, that the mobile computing device is located proximate the wireless sensor. The system is further configured to control the wireless sensor to establish a wireless connection between the wireless sensor and the mobile computing device, and receive, from the mobile computing device, via the wireless connection, a player identifier. In addition, the system is configured to determine the respective player position associated with the wireless sensor, in response to determining the respective player position and based on the player identifier, associate the player with the respective player position within a table management database.