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March 9, 2007

RemoteReality and NAV signed a letter of intent to establish a joint marketing, product development and exclusive value added reseller (VAR) partnership for the gaming industry in North America. Under that agreement, the companies will work to clearly define 360-degree surveillance product specifications for development of products that NAV will privately brand, market and sell to the gaming industry.

“Gaming is one of the vertical [markets] where we feel our technology and our product set can add some value,” James Ionson, CEO of RemoteReality recently told Casino Journal. “North American Video is a leading integrator in that space. What we’re doing is taking our current product sets, which are tailored for military defense, government and other commercial applications, and tailoring them to meet the needs of the casino market as well.”

Ionson said his company’s security and surveillance systems provide persistent situational awareness in a 360-degree domain. “If events take place in that 360-degree environment, either positive or negative, our systems are intelligent enough to recognize that and track it and drill down on that event without losing sight of everything else around the perimeter.”

RemoteReality already has a lot of applications in the military space for this application—perimeter security, remotely piloting vehicles in combat zones. Access control is also a significant part of the business.

“With our systems, if an individual enters a restricted zone, then the system is intelligent enough to start tracking that individual and tell you exactly where that individual is. We can couple right into a GPS system. If another person came in, it could also track that person. It can track multiple people.”

There are other companies in the surveillance marketplace that can provide facial recognition or gesture recognition algorithms, Ionson said. The RemoteReality system is open enough that eventually operators will be able to incorporate those algorithms into our imaging system.

“RemoteReality’s next-generation omni-imaging systems will greatly enhance North American Video’s surveillance integration and coverage capabilities while applying advanced analytics,” said NAV President Cynthia Freschi. “The ability to create a visually secure 360-degree area using a single high-performance camera lends itself to myriad security applications for gaming and casino facilities. We have been seriously looking for ways to enhance security solutions and believe that RemoteReality has the technology to take us to a new level,” she added. “We will be actively pursuing input from our gaming clients as we explore different ways to configure RemoteReality’s unique camera technology for security applications.”

The RemoteReality system is completely digital. “However, the nice thing about digital is that you can always retrofit it back into legacy systems,” Ionson said. “As the industry moves into more internet protocol systems, we fit nicely into that. But as far as retrofitting is concerned, look at what’s out there now—it’s basically that the signals are being carried over cables now. It’s very easy to take a digital signal and move it over a coaxial cable and turn it into an analog signal so that it can be viewed and recorded on analog devices.”

RemoteReality does have gaming-applicable prototypes, and Ionson said there has already been interest in incorporating some of those prototypes into casinos as beta sites.

—Andy Holtmann