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Mobile technology helps eliminate blasting obstacles

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Creamer Media Reporter
 
Explosives firm BME explored how mobile technology and centralised data could provide mine managers with an edge to comprehensively eliminate potential blast problems, through among others management of blast inputs, thereby improving blast results, at its annual Drilling and Blasting Conference. Speaking at the event earlier this month at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, in Pretoria, BME senior software developer Nicky Klacar explained that BME had leveraged the combined computing power of mobile platforms supported by enterprise-grade cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure to design a central data-storage repository for data captured by mobile devices in the field.
 
 
 
 
 

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