US 12,078,467 B2
Commercial blasting systems
Kresten Lukas Coffey Nielsen, Newcastle (AU); Kieren Peter Rasmussen, Kurri Kurri (AU); Johann Zank, Valentine (AU); and Richard John Goodridge, Redhead (AU)
Assigned to Orica International Pte Ltd, Singapore (SG)
Appl. No. 17/622,172
Filed by Orica International Pte Ltd, Singapore (SG)
PCT Filed Jun. 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/SG2020/050370
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/263193, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10201905973Y (SG), filed on Jun. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0349693 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/38 (2018.01); F42D 1/04 (2006.01); F42D 3/04 (2006.01); B64U 101/00 (2023.01)
CPC F42D 3/04 (2013.01) [F42D 1/04 (2013.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.02); B64U 2101/00 (2023.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for assisting blasting, the system including:
at least one wireless blasting-related device that is deployable or deployed proximate to or within a portion of physical media intended to be blasted as part of a commercial blasting operation, wherein the blasting-related device includes a device-based magnetic induction (MI) signal receiver with a magnetometer configured for through the earth (TTE) MI communication, and the blasting-related device includes a device-based MI signal source with a device-based antenna configured for TTE MI communication,
wherein the device-based MI signal source is configured to communicate with a vehicle-based MI signal receiver in a blast support vehicle that includes a set of vehicle-based magnetometers.