Synectics Plc, a United Kingdom-based provider of security and surveillance technology, is to launch later this year a new tool for its video-surveillance platform, enabling advanced forensics video analytics functions, including free-text search. The firm is showcasing a demo of the new product at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia 2025 casino trade show and conference.
The three-day event is taking place until Friday (May 9) at the Venetian Macao casino resort.
The new tool, called ‘Synergy Search’ (pictured), integrates with Synectics’ security and surveillance platform, Synergy. A number of casino properties in Asia use Synectics’ surveillance products.
Through Synergy Search, casino operators “are able to run forensic searches in the videos,” using server-based analytics, said Ee Li Chong, Synectics’ systems solutions manager, in an interview with GGRAsia.
“There are a lot of different types of queries available to support the search,” she explained. “You can actually run free-text searches,” based on object classification.
The product is described as the first of its kind offered by Synectics.
The company representative added that the tool enables clients to locate desired footage more quickly, as opposed to manually reviewing lengthy video feeds. “This automates that finding process,” Ms Ee said.
The new tool was developed in response to customer feedback, she added
“A lot of [customers] – not only from the gaming sector, but also from oil, gas and other industries – have asked for analytics, asked for forensic search,” she stated.
Synectics said in late January that it had been awarded a “further contract” worth approximately US$2.2 million, regarding “professional services” for the “upgrade and expansion” of its Synergy surveillance system at a “major gaming resort in Southeast Asia”.
In December last year, the firm announced it had secured four separate contracts from gaming-sector clients, with a combined value of US$2.7 million. Two of those clients are “leading gaming resorts” in the Philippines, the company stated at the time.
