A security officer at the Borgata Casino in New Jersey keeps an eye on Kaimi while a security camera tracks the activity on a blackjack table. Screenshot from National Geographic Channel’s Casino Wars.
Next time you visit a casino remember this: they’re watching, they’re watching very closely, and now, thanks to software from an Omaha company, 21CSi, they’re analyzing data about players in real-time – betting histories, street addresses, relationships to casino employees, it’s all in their system.
National Geographic Channel‘s Casino Wars spotlighted 21CSi’s casino security software, Kaimi (pronounced Kah-ee-me), in an October episode, calling it a “remarkable new software system.”
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The show interviewed Bruce Band, a casino consultant with 21CSi, on how the software creates a digital player profile to help to identify a potential thief.
“[Kaimi] has algorithms built in that will tell you if somebody is betting out of their normal pattern, whether they are winning more than they normally should statistically,” Band says. “It also allows you to match addresses, phone numbers between employees and patrons.”
The video below, the clip from the Oct. 21 episode featuring Kaimi, takes an interesting look at the software. It shows it in use, even helping the Borgata Casino in New Jersey make a bust as the cameras roll.
To learn more about the Kaimi, we spoke with Dave Andersen, president and CEO of 21CSi, a 24-person company with 13 based in the Scott Technology Center and 11 outside of Nebraska.
“21CSi developed Kaimi software to help solve the problem casino operators have of eliminating or greatly reducing revenue losses due to fraud,” Andersen said in an email interview earlier this month. “That means catching the crooks and cheats while they’re on the casino floor.
“While casinos have lots of video cameras and player, dealer and employee data available to them,” Andersen said, “before Kaimi they had no way to really analyze the data to alert them in real-time that something suspicious may be happening with one or several players, dealers or employees in the casino.”
For a closer look at Kaimi, check out our post and video in April: “Cornstalks Demo Night: Kaimi demo by Kimo Scott“.
