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Ontario’s expanded online casino and sports betting industry launches in less than three weeks. When it does, provincial bettors will have a nearly unlimited choice of available brands—an embarrassment of riches, really.

One more issue that the provincial regulators are worried about is how operators will be able to prevent out-of-jurisdiction players from participating … LocationSmart has previously worked with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and IGT.

When Ontario‘s regulated iGaming market launches on April 4, ensuring that players accessing online iGaming and sports betting platforms are located within provincial borders at the time will be a serious issue.

The use of location technologies such as GPS or IP addresses to identify and track the whereabouts of connected electronic devices is becoming an increasingly important tool in enabling operates to legally offer services in legalised states. G3 explores the state-by-state legislation and talks to key technology providers enabling operators to pinpoint the location of their players.

LocationSmart®, the leading provider of cloud-based location services for gaming geolocation compliance and IoT asset management, has been honored by Corporate Vision Magazine with its Corporate Excellence Award for the Best Cloud-Based Location Services Platform - 2021.

“Geolocation outfits are the gateway to the Golden Goose of many gaming enterprises. Their penchant to monitor, detect and thwart fraud are irreplaceable, especially considering online gaming’s looming multibillion-dollar stature.”

The current pandemic has impacted businesses all over the globe, many of which were unprepared to handle the radical shifts in consumer needs. Location-as-a-Service has been able to assist business owners, whether they’re just looking for a revenue boost to tide them over or potentially transitioning into permanent virtual services. We’ll look at how the benefits of LocationSmart, a key player in the Location-as-a-Service ecosystem, are filling a niche and the technology behind it all.

COVID-19 has had a massive impact on the entire world. No industry has been left untouched. Restaurants and entertainment venues have struggled while essential retail services find it a challenge to keep inventory and keep shoppers safe. Some industries have turned entirely to remote work and off-site functions in order to stay afloat while keeping person to person contact at a minimum. Nowhere have these things had a bigger impact than on gaming, resort and sporting venues worldwide. For some of these services, particularly those in the gaming sector, there are options available for moving to virtual operations.

The company provides a privacy-protected platform that delivers critical location data, consent management, compliance services, and device profiling. It provides the easiest to use and most comprehensive multi-source location platform for local, hyper-local and context-aware application development.

With their innovative and patent-protected services, LocationSmart is helping clients comply with government regulations, gain and maintain location insights about critical assets, receive 24/7 visibility into their supply chains, and more. These services save time and money for clients, ultimately lessening the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carlsbad, California based company, LocationSmart, makes secure, reliable shipping a certainty during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It has been a rough few months for people, businesses, industries, and governments around the globe. COVID-19 has brought the world to its knees, causing the close of businesses everywhere – including casinos and other businesses related to the gaming industry. Fortunately, people can still enjoy their gaming experience, including online casinos and sports betting, without having to physically go to a casino. However, one of the biggest concerns for many countries and states that are charged with regulating the industry is access control.

To provide an additional layer of location intelligence, LocationSmart offers device location insight through a Mobile App SDK and Web Browsers. These technologies use Wi-Fi, cell site, and GPS, depending on what location technology is the most accurate and accessible at the time of use.

Online gaming poses a unique challenge to the companies that offer it. There are very strict regulations that restrict online gaming to specific regions, states, or countries. This means that people located outside the areas in which online gaming is legal are not permitted to play. The challenge is how to know where your gaming customers are located, so that you can control their access based on whether they are within the jurisdictional boundaries. This is the only way application developers can ensure full compliance and gaming verification for their companies.

“A forensic investigation conducted by a national cybersecurity research firm found no evidence of a data breach nor that any end user data was accessed without their consent. Additionally, LocationSmart discontinued the location services targeted by the demo exploit (“the LocationSmart hack”) in 2019. LocationSmart has always taken end user privacy seriously and was grateful that it was able to quickly identify and eliminate the vulnerability and further strengthen its data protections as a result.”