BINGO FOR CASINO'S IP VIDEO SURVEILLANCE

Oct 1, 2005 12:00 PM

After an enormously successful beginning in the 1980s as a high-stakes bingo operation, San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino has expanded into a 100,000-square-foot gaming arena. An amenity enhancement project in 2003 provided more gaming, which opened in January of 2005.

San Manuel has chosen Endura, a distributed network-based video security system by Clovis, Calif.-based Pelco, as the focal point of its surveillance security and more than 3,000-camera system requirements.

At the forefront of San Manuel's decision-making process was achieving the best picture quality and reliability for surveillance of its operations.

“What we were looking for was an extremely reliable, flexible video system that would use our IT infrastructure to its fullest — with expandability and adaptability to evolve as needed,” says Tom Naoum, San Manuel assistant director of surveillance.

Located in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountain region, just north of the city of Highland, Calif., San Manuel currently employs more than 2,500 people. The IP-based video surveillance system may be the largest in the gaming industry, Pelco senior product manager Craig Dahlman says.

Scott Bartlett, with integrator Southwest Surveillance Systems of Las Vegas, said that working with Pelco on putting together this system within the timeframe required by San Manuel went very well. “For such a large system, Endura was quick and easy to install,” he says.

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