JCM Global executives announced at the recent ICE London trade show that the company is updating its universal bill acceptor (UBA), currently in use on “hundreds of thousands of gaming devices around the world,” o offer faster processing and improved security against counterfeiting.
Tom Nieman, vice president of marketing for JCM Global, said the UBA upgrade will allow it to process notes three times faster than previously possible, without sacrificing any accuracy. A photocopy image of every single note it processes will be taken “in nanoseconds,” Nieman told CDC Gaming Reports. “The photocopies are stored in order to identify those handling illegal funds. In high-volume environments, processing time is crucial, as important as speed is, security is absolutely as important.”
Nieman said the new product is compatible with gaming machines. UBA is retrofittable with plug-and-play technology. Used alongside facial recognition technology, serial numbers can be checked against a black box record of counterfeit bills.
Nieman told CDC the JCM system can monitor how much play was had on a machine before it was cashed out by a player, helping to identify trends in play or movement around a casino which may indicate a problem gambling behavior or compulsive play.
