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Abstract

A wireless detonation system having a dongle for removable connection with a computer system and for wirelessly communicating with and controlling one or more trigger devices and a trigger device for wirelessly communicating with the dongle. The dongle includes a dongle processor programmed to communicate with the computer system via the communication interface to operate the radio transceiver to wirelessly communicate with one or more trigger devices, a radio transceiver coupled to the dongle processor, a communication interface coupled to the dongle processor and one or more contact communication terminals in communication with the dongle processor. The trigger device includes a trigger device processor programmed to communicate with the dongle, a radio transceiver in communication with the trigger device processor, one or more contact communication terminals in communication with the trigger device processor, and an electric energy storage unit under control of the trigger device processor and adapted to store electrical energy for igniting a detonator. The dongle processor is further programmed to receive one or more commands from the connected computer system and transmit the one or more commands to the trigger device and wherein the trigger device processor is further programmed to, in response to the commands from the dongle, ignite a detonator and the trigger device is adapted to only accept commands from the dongle.

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