Patent ID: 8994515
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: F42D

Abstract:
1. A system for programming and firing a plurality of electronic detonators that are each associated an inherent identification parameter, the system comprising: at least one programming unit comprising a memory and configured to determine the identification parameters for electronic detonators and to associate with them individually, in memory, a firing cue, so as to form a firing plan; and a firing unit configured to retrieve, from the memory of the at least one programming unit, said firing plan made of the associations between the identification parameters and the corresponding firing cues, and further configured to command a firing sequence for the detonators on the basis of the firing plan retrieved; wherein the at least one programming unit further comprises: wherein one of a first programming unit and the firing unit comprises a radiofrequency reader that reads a firing plan in a memory of a passive tag of a second programming unit and copies said read firing plan into a memory of a passive tag of the first programming unit or into a rewritable memory of the firing unit.