In the past, the processing of lottery tickets was largely manual. In the 1990s, WestLotto started using terminals to scan purchased lottery tickets and digitalise them. However, those machines were huge, expensive and prone to error.
How can lottery tickets migrate to the cloud?
AI that analyses lottery tickets, even when they are illegible
Where AI comes in
adesso developed an application based on artificial intelligence (AI) and installed it on tablets to offer a significantly more efficient alternative for analysing tickets. Tickets are first photographed and sent to the cloud, where an object detection machine learning model identifies the fields and numbers selected.
How things are now
The AI application identifies the selected fields, regardless of how creased or stained the ticket is.
The benefits of AI-based lottery ticket recognition in the cloud are clear:
- Space-saving: WestLotto can use the tablets as an alternative to the huge lottery terminals at the point of sale.
- Cost-saving: Using standard consumer tablets with in-built cameras reduces procurement costs.
- Cost transparency: Cloud deployment of machine learning models with centralised support ensures a clear overview of costs.
- Reading accuracy: Automated retraining of the machine learning models increases reading accuracy no matter if lottery tickets are crumpled or the photograph was taken in bad lighting conditions.
- Scalability: Can be expanded to include other types of ticket by retraining the machine learning models using new training data.
Whitepaper
A detailed description of the project “How can lottery tickets migrate to the cloud?” is available to download.
>> Together with adesso, we have created a fully fledged alternative to conventional terminals that involves scanning and processing the tickets using the tablet’s camera feature.
Michael Stücker, Head of IT Development at WestLotto
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