Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Gaming Partners International tapped for casino grand opening

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Gaming Partners International announced that it has completed delivery of its casino furniture, casino chips and associated gaming products for the opening of River City Casino, located in St. Louis, Missouri.

GPI provided the River City Casino with its associated table game equipment, which included GPI’s Paulson line of gaming chips, as well as precision dice, table layouts, roulette wheels and table game accessories.

The company supplied all of the casino’s gaming tables, as well as the pit podiums, security podiums and host podiums. All of the furniture was custom-built to accommodate River City’s design and operational requirements. [end] 

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that the forthcoming Wii U game controller will feature embedded NFC technology.

According to Iwata, the NFC controller will contain the same contactless standards used in FeliCa and Mifare products, enabling it to interact with a variety of different NFC-tagged objects to enrich the gaming experience.

read more »

Gaming Partners International Corporation, a provider of RFID-enabled casino currency and table game equipment, announced that it has been chosen to supply the Galaxy Macau casino with all of its casino chips and plaques.

read more »

Rivers Casino Des Plaines, Ill. has installed InvoTech’s GIMS automatic ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID garment tracking system to manage more than 20,000 custom-designed staff uniforms.

read more »

Konami Digital Entertainment Co. has chosen VASCO Data Security International’s DIGIPASS technology to increase security for its online gaming and shopping services.

Cybercriminals have begun hacking into e-commerce and online gaming platforms to intercept payment transactions or steal gaming credits and goods for resale.

read more »

A project conceived of by researchers from RMIT University that intends to link infant footprint records to vaccination records has received a grant from the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, a part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to an Asian Scientist article.

read more »

Another library joins the long list of those converting to RFID technology to developing a more efficient method of borrowing items - the Grand Rapids Public Library system.

read more »