Systems and methods for gaming machine diagnostic analysis

A diagnostic device for an electronic gaming machine (EGM) comprising:

• a power supply,
• an agnostic diagnostic device in electrical connection with the power supply, the diagnostic device configured for placement within a cabinet of an EGM to cause the EGM to disable based on identification of potential mishandling or potential tampering during transportation of the EGM when the diagnostic device is in an active mode, the diagnostic device comprising:
• a sensor array including at least one sensor for sensing a condition associated with the EGM during transportation of the EGM and configured to generate conditions data based on the sensed condition, wherein the conditions data includes first conditions data from the at least one sensor to identify potential mishandling or potential tampering and second conditions data automatically gathered from a second at least one sensor of the sensory array in response to the first conditions data to further identify potential mishandling or potential tampering;
• a memory configured to store the conditions data;
• and
• a communications device configured to transmit the conditions data to a remote location for processing against at least one threshold representative of a steady state of the sensed condition based upon analysis of conditions data sampled from a plurality of EGMs.

A method of performing a diagnostic evaluation of an electronic gaming machine (EGM), the method comprising:

• placing a diagnostic device within a cabinet of an EGM, the diagnostic device configured to cause the EGM to disable based on identification of potential mishandling or potential tampering during transportation of the EGM, when the diagnostic device is in an active mode the diagnostic device comprising:
• an attachment device configured to couple the diagnostic device to the EGM;
• a sensor array including at least one sensor for sensing a condition associated with the EGM during transportation of the EGM and configured to generate conditions data based on the sensed condition, wherein the conditions data includes first conditions data from the at least one sensor to identify potential mishandling or potential tampering and second conditions data automatically gathered from a second at least one sensor of the sensory array in response to the first conditions data to further identify potential mishandling or potential tampering;
• a communications device configured to transmit the conditions data to a remote location;
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• a memory configured to store the conditions data;
• and
• transmitting the conditions data to a remote processor configured to analyze the conditions data against at least one threshold representative of a steady state of the sensed condition based upon analysis of conditions data sampled from a plurality of EGMs and determine a diagnostic evaluation based upon the analyzed conditions data.