System for remotely loading and remotely maintaining an electronic card

A system for remotely loading and remotely maintaining an electronic card belonging to automation equipment, comprising:

• the electronic card comprising a processing unit, an internal bus and a resources controller with one or more Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) interface registers accessible for reading and writing by a JTAG server external to the automation equipment, via signals in conformity with the JTAG Standard,
• wherein, the resources controller contains a status engine configured to interpret and run instructions stored in the one or more JTAG interface registers and which can access a plurality of resources managed by the resources controller to perform remote loading and remote maintenance of the electronic card (5), and wherein
• the processing unit is configured to not intervene in the remote loading and remote maintenance of the electronic card performed by the resources controller.