Casinos turning to embedded chips to generate player and accounting data

By Stephen Barlas

Major gaming industry vendors are betting big on the use of RFID gaming chips. The first to lay its cards on the table is Las Vegas-based Progressive Gaming International Corp. Casinos in Louisiana, Minnesota, Las Vegas and Northern California are using Progressive’s TableLink chip tracking system, which includes an RFID reader at every table, antennas under each of a table’s seven playing positions and gaming chips with RFID inlays. Look for it at other games such as roulette and craps once Progressive develops a faster RFID semiconductor, says Tim Richards, the company’s executive director of marketing.