ComTrade, formerly known as HERMES SoftLab, has deployed its central monitoring solution based on open standards for the gaming regulatory board under the ministry of finance of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzevogina.

The launch of the system utilising data acquisition and processing based on open standards is one of the first run by an authorised regulator. The monitoring system uses a well-known system-to-system protocol from the Gaming Standards Association to collect accounting data from each gaming venue.

It is also capable of storing collected data metrics, performing analysis and offering various reports for casino gaming machines, betting shops and online gaming sites. The S2S protocol was extended with betting metrics in order to support data collection from gaming sites other than casinos to allow a consistent and efficient collection of account data from betting shops.

Ale Gornjec, business development manager for gaming at ComTrade, said: "This is a major breakthrough for the GSA standards-based system within the gaming sector. ComTrade is committed to the development, support and assistance of open standards in many areas where gaming is not an exception. We are pioneers in this space of installed systems as we look to the future and towards a standardised and open approach to gathering and processing gaming related data."