Smoky Mountain Casino Goes Digital

Feb 1, 2005 12:00 PM

As part of an ambitious expansion and renovation program, Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina has installed a Network Video Recording (NVR) system from PI Vision, Orlando, Fla.

The casino is located on the edge of a National Park and is renowned for its scenery and luxury accommodation. Harrah's is currently doubling the size of the hotel and casino, with work expected to be completed in early 2005. As part of the upgrade, the casino is migrating its video surveillance recording from VCR/analog to hard-disk recording using the Universal Video Management System (UVMS) from PI Vision.

The UVMS is a digital video surveillance system that gives the user instant access to archived footage, search and camera navigation functions, and Evidential Video Master (EVM). EVM is a software suite that enables users to identify and export evidence-quality video clips for investigations and prosecutions.

“The system is very user-friendly. It has saved our department time performing reviews that we now use to actually apprehend suspects,” says Juan Owle, surveillance manager at the casino.

UVMS is network-enabled and can sit on the casino's IP network, thus enabling video to be retrieved from anywhere on the network by a workstation that is equipped with PI Vision's access station software, pending successful log-in procedures.

UVMS at Harrah's records 850 cameras located throughout the hotel and casino complex. The casino and hotel have two video access stations — one in the main control room and another at an undisclosed location to provide additional monitoring capacity during busy times.

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