Verify age, automatically
Estimate patron age from facial features with exceptional accuracy, and flag anyone who appears underage for a staff check, before they reach a gaming machine.
Manual ID checks are inconsistent and easy to defeat.
Verifying a patron's age is a harm-minimisation essential, yet manual checks depend on a busy staff member making a judgement call at the door. They are applied unevenly, are vulnerable to fraudulent identification, and rarely scale across a venue. A consistent, automated layer of protection helps a venue get it right every time.
Human judgement varies shift to shift
Whether a borderline patron is asked for identification depends on who is working, how busy it is, and how confident they feel making the call.
Fake IDs slip through
Increasingly convincing fraudulent documents are difficult to detect under pressure and undermine even diligent door procedures.
Penalties for getting it wrong are severe
Allowing a minor to gamble exposes a venue to serious reputational harm that far outweighs the cost of prevention.
An automated first line of age verification
Ottica adds a consistent, privacy-respecting check that works alongside your existing procedures.
Exceptionally high age-estimation accuracy
Our in-house model estimates age from facial features with exceptional accuracy, providing a dependable signal to support, not replace, staff judgement.
Instant alerts for likely minors
When someone appears to be under age, the system raises a real-time alert to your team so they can request identification before any gaming takes place.
Smart cameras, tuned for age
Age detection runs on Ottica's purpose-built smart cameras, supplied and positioned by our team at the entries that matter.
On-premise and private
All analysis happens locally inside the venue. Faces are assessed for an age estimate, not enrolled or retained, and nothing is sent to the cloud.
A consistent, auditable check
A uniform, automated age check runs the same way on every shift, giving you a reliable, auditable record and reducing reliance on individual judgement.
Promotes responsible gaming
Automated age detection safeguards minors and deters identity fraud, reinforcing a culture of responsible service.
What you can expect
- Consistent age checks that do not depend on who is on shift
- Real-time alerts before a likely minor reaches a machine
- A consistent, auditable record of age checks
- Lower exposure to fines and identity fraud
- Smart cameras supplied and tuned for your venue
- Faces assessed for age, never enrolled or stored
Questions, answered.
Ottica's age-estimation model achieves exceptional accuracy when reading age from facial features. It is designed as a decision-support tool: when a patron appears underage it prompts a staff member to request identification, combining the consistency of AI with human verification.
No. It acts as an automated first line of defence that flags likely minors for a manual ID check. Staff remain in control of the final decision, while the system ensures borderline cases are never missed during busy periods.
No. The system estimates age from a facial image in real time and does not enrol or retain individuals for this purpose. All processing happens on-premise, and nothing is sent to the cloud.
Ottica's own smart cameras, supplied as part of the deployment. Our team positions them at the entries and gaming-room thresholds where age checks matter, so coverage is reliable rather than dependent on whatever happens to be installed.
Add automated age verification to your venue
Talk to our Melbourne team about deploying age detection on Ottica's smart cameras, with privacy-first processing and support tailored to Australian gaming and wagering venues.