CPC G07F 17/3293 (2013.01) [A63F 1/062 (2013.01); A63F 1/18 (2013.01); G07F 17/322 (2013.01); G07F 17/3241 (2013.01); A63F 3/00157 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2419 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2489 (2013.01); A63F 2250/58 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims |
1. A management system for managing gaming equipment, wherein a plurality of the gaming equipment is of a same type, and the gaming equipment has respective radio frequency identification (RFID) tags storing respective IDs that distinguish the plurality of the gaming equipment of the same type from one another, and a casino has a storage location where the gaming equipment is stored and a use location where the gaming equipment is used at a gaming table, the management system comprising:
a plurality of RFID readers, that include at least one first reader in the storage location and at least one second reader in the use location, configured to read the IDs from the RFID tags of the gaming equipment; and
a management control device, wherein:
the management control device is configured to manage movement of the gaming equipment between the storage location and the use location; and
the management of the movement includes determining whether the IDs read by the RFID reader at the storage location matches the IDs read by the RFID reader at the use location.
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