An Oklahoma ethnic casino’s security camera system uses artificial intelligence to identify gun-carrying customers.
The Muskogee Nation Gaming Enterprise in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to Travis Thompson, chairman of compliance for the game, which is reportedly the first game in the country to mount the ZeroEyes modern gun-finding program.
An industry expert said the novel weapons detection system would n’t be permitted in Nevada casinos because gaming regulations forbid third parties from monitoring casino security camera video, which is a crucial component of how ZeroEyes operates.
” Being in the entertainment industry and with the stuff going on around the world, active shooter cases are more numerous, and that’s a terrible thing”, Thompson said. We really had one reach that kind of struck a chord with us. An effective gunman entered a nearby hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the incident actually opened our eyes. It’s ( the hospital ) about a mile from our current casino that we have there”.
Seven years ago, following the mass shooting at Mandalay Bay  and the Route 91 Harvest Festival, Muscogee officials made the decision to take action and began looking for a way to avoid a disaster without using metal detectors at game entrances.
” ZeroEyes at the time sort of fit our bill of what we were looking for,” Thompson said. It’s a system learning-based AI-based recognition software connected to a sizable database of firearms. It uses cameras feeds as a supplementary stream to give that to an AI client indefinitely.
The Las Vegas Security Chiefs Association’s president and Caesars Palace’s vice president of security, Rick Vonfeldt, claims that the program would not be allowed in Nevada because ZeroEyes tracking systems can be viewed remotely and no on-site at the game.
Impressed with engineering
” I was impressed with the technology”, Vonfeldt said. About 80 of our members had the opportunity to watch ZeroEyes work at a show held at the Horseshoe a few weeks ago.
The Regional Transportation Commission administrators were impressed enough to fit a ZeroEyes system at RTC transport centers to observe people boarding buses while using weapons.
RTC CEO MJ Maynard stated in a speech to the Review-Journal in June that the company “prefers to detect transport problems and implement remedies.” Every day, thousands of people rely on our transit system, and we are constantly looking for ways to increase their safety and security.
” The ZeroEyes program requires devices to be monitored and if a tool is detected, a call is made for officials site to investigate”, Vonfeldt said.
A system like ZeroEyes may have other operational issues, according to a casino surveillance professional, because once a tool is found, security officers want to take urgent action to catch the person and spend valuable time matching the found weapon to a database to find out what officers are up against.
Although there are some restrictions on how those analysis work, it’s almost impossible for mortal sight to see anything when they’re monitoring various devices when they’re doing it, according to Joel Kisner, a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department official who founded and runs Pinnacle Consulting and Advisors.
Won’t catch everything
” So, ZeroEyes wo n’t give you 100 percent detection. There are things they’ll miss. That’s within the analytics”, he said.
” Maybe there’s resolution issues. There’s blending of the background, so like a black gun over black clothing. When a gun is pointed 90 degrees at one of the cameras, ZeroEyes has issues because it does n’t have enough features in it and the smaller the gun, the harder it is to get the alert. So, in the old days, people would be sat down staring at a collection of televisions and attempting to figure out what to watch. And a lot of things are missed simply because it’s so difficult for a human to watch one screen for a long time, let alone multiple, making it difficult for them to watch them. Those analytics make things a little simpler.
However, Thompson and Muscogee are pleased with the system’s so far, noting that most of its customers are schoolchildren and employees in over 40 states.
Thompson claimed he could n’t discuss the cost of the system because each individual system varies depending on several factors, including the number of cameras that are monitored.
The ZeroEyes operation center’s system, which he described as” the way our system is set up, notifies our tribal police, our local 911 centers, and a mass notification goes out to employees and management,” he said.
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