Synectics has introduced a new automated solution known as Scene Check, designed to rapidly verify the functionality of thousands of surveillance cameras in casinos, reducing the time taken for such checks from hours to mere minutes.
This innovation offers significant advantages by mitigating operational risks and enhancing regulatory adherence in large gaming establishments, particularly after events such as outages or maintenance work.
Optimised for large-scale casinos
Scene Check is tailored for large-scale casino operations, streamlining one of the most laborious surveillance tasks: ensuring each camera's correct function, proper positioning, and appropriate field of view across critical areas such as gaming floors, count rooms, and cash-handling sectors. Previously, verifying camera functionality was a time-consuming manual process, posing significant challenges for maintaining surveillance integrity.
The system’s global rollout follows a successful implementation at a major integrated casino resort
The system’s global rollout follows a successful implementation at a major integrated casino resort. Here, Scene Check proved its operational value by quickly restoring full surveillance capabilities after a power outage, allowing the gaming area to reopen faster than manual inspection would have allowed. This rapid verification process illustrated the system's potential to enhance efficiency significantly.
Addressing resource-intensive inspections
David Aindow, Chief Strategy Officer at Synectics, highlighted the challenges casinos face with camera faults, which can lead to surveillance blind spots, operational delays, and increased compliance risks. He stated, “Camera faults don’t just create surveillance blind spots; they can delay gaming operations, increase compliance exposure, and consume hours of manual effort.”
Scene Check automates camera inspections by evaluating alignment, field of view, image quality, and operational status of the cameras. It detects issues such as failures, misalignment, obstructions, tampering, blur, and focus degradation, promptly alerting surveillance teams to address specific cameras that need attention, alleviating the burden of manual inspections.
Enhancing compliance and operational continuity
Scene Check generates comprehensive, auditable records of camera verifications
Beyond simple problem identification, Scene Check generates comprehensive, auditable records of camera verifications. These records substantiate that casinos actively monitor surveillance coverage, address issues, and implement corrective actions, providing valuable compliance evidence for both internal and external regulatory reviews.
The technology proves beneficial across environments where uninterrupted surveillance directly affects operational continuity. It enables rapid assessment of camera compliance and readiness following maintenance or infrastructure changes, thus minimising downtime and ensuring seamless operations.
Summarising the system's benefits, Aindow noted, “As surveillance systems continue to grow in size and complexity, manually verifying camera performance is becoming increasingly impractical. Scene Check enables organisations to continuously validate camera readiness, helping them maintain surveillance coverage, strengthen compliance and minimise operational disruption.”
Synectics has launched Scene Check, an automated camera verification solution that enables casinos to verify thousands of surveillance cameras in minutes rather than hours.
By automating a process that is highly manual in many surveillance operations, Scene Check helps casino operators reduce operational risk, strengthen regulatory compliance, and restore gaming operations faster following outages, maintenance, or infrastructure changes.
Large-scale casino environments
Developed specifically for large-scale casino environments, Scene Check addresses one of the most time-consuming surveillance tasks, confirming that every camera is working correctly, positioned accurately, and delivering the required field of view across gaming floors, count rooms, cash-handling areas, and other critical locations.
The global launch follows a successful deployment at a major integrated casino resort, where the technology has already demonstrated clear operational value. Following a power outage that forced the temporary closure of a gaming area, Scene Check automatically validated surveillance coverage once power was restored, enabling the operator to reopen significantly faster than would have been possible using manual camera inspections.
Resource-intensive task
“Camera faults don’t just create surveillance blind spots; they can delay gaming operations, increase compliance exposure, and consume hours of manual effort,” said David Aindow, Chief Strategy Officer at Synectics. For casinos operating thousands of cameras across gaming floors, count rooms, cash-handling areas and restricted-access locations, verifying camera performance is a critical but resource-intensive task. These inspections can take hours to complete and may still fail to identify issues.
Scene Check automates this process, enabling surveillance teams to check thousands of cameras in minutes by verifying camera alignment, field of view, image quality, and operational status. The solution automatically detects camera failures, misalignment, obstructions, tampering, blur, and focus degradation, generating alerts and reports that direct surveillance teams to cameras that require attention.
Surveillance coverage of critical areas
Aindow continued: "Surveillance teams have little choice but to spend hours manually checking cameras to identify issues. Scene Check changes that by automatically identifying those that need attention, allowing teams to focus on resolving problems instead of searching for them.”
Scene Check creates a fully auditable record of camera verification activities, helping casinos demonstrate that surveillance coverage is actively monitored, issues are identified, and corrective actions are taken. This provides valuable evidence for compliance reviews, whether conducted internally or required by gaming regulators, while giving operators greater confidence that surveillance coverage of critical areas remains continuous.
Minimising operational disruption
The technology is also suited to all environments where surveillance coverage is directly linked to operational continuity, enabling teams to quickly determine whether cameras remain compliant and ready for service following maintenance activities, outages or infrastructure changes.
Aindow concluded: "As surveillance systems continue to grow in size and complexity, manually verifying camera performance is becoming increasingly impractical. Scene Check enables organisations to continuously validate camera readiness, helping them maintain surveillance coverage, strengthen compliance and minimise operational disruption."
