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The drone fiber optic cable reel is a drone accessory that utilizes fiber optics to achieve ultra-long-distance, interference-resistant video transmission, making it particularly suitable for stable operation in complex electromagnetic environments. It provides a secure, high-bandwidth, and low-latency communication link between a UAV and its ground station, ideal for surveillance, industrial inspection, and defense applications. The reel allows the cable to deploy and retract smoothly during flight.

Drone Fiber Reel Features

• Strong electromagnetic interference resistance: Fiber optic transmission is completely immune to electromagnetic interference, performing exceptionally well in complex environments such as war zones or high-voltage facilities, preventing eavesdropping and data theft.
• High-definition and low latency: Supports real-time transmission of high-definition video, providing quick control response, fast transmission speed, and strong stability.
• Lightweight design: The fiber optic cable is lightweight, minimizing its impact on drone flight.
• Long-distance monitoring: Supports wired signal transmission up to 20km.

Application

Yingda’s drone fiber optic cable system boasts powerful core functionality and is suitable for various environments. Its transmission speed far surpasses traditional wireless transmission methods, and it operates stably and reliably in complex environments, supporting long-distance data transmission.

Remote Monitoring

Fiber optic remote monitoring utilizes the high speed and high bandwidth characteristics of fiber optics to achieve long-distance, high-definition, and stable video transmission and monitoring. It boasts strong anti-interference capabilities and clear image quality, making it suitable for monitoring needs in various important locations, ensuring safety and security.

FPV Drone Communication

Wired fiber optic communication technology has successfully solved the problem of short-wave drone communication in strong interference environments.  It enables long-distance wired communication of 5km and 10km, ensuring stable and secure communication.

Pipeline crawling robot communication

Urban pipeline networks are incredibly complex, and short-wave communication struggles to cover all scenarios.  Fiber optic communication, however, enables high-speed and stable data transmission, offers strong resistance to interference, has low signal loss over long distances, and is lightweight and portable, thereby improving the efficiency and safety of pipeline maintenance.

Underwater Robot Communication

Fiber optic communication demonstrates significant advantages in underwater robot applications.  Through the transmission of optical signals, it achieves high-speed and stable data communication, unaffected by underwater environmental interference, providing underwater robots with long-distance, high-capacity communication capabilities.

Indoor or Industrial Inspection

The indoor inspection drone utilizes wired fiber optic communication, overcoming the limitations of wireless transmission, and ignoring obstacles in underground environments, thus achieving safe and stable transmission of large amounts of data in complex terrain or inspection of dangerous areas such as high-voltage power lines and oil pipelines.

Emergency Communication

A temporary communication network is quickly established at the disaster site to ensure rapid, timely, and effective communication and rescue operations.

Drone Fiber Reel Products

Custom Fiber Spool For Drone

Yingda support customized fiber optic cable assemblies: labels, fiber length, fiber type, and packaging according to their needs. Each product is fully equipped, including all necessary data cables, connecting cables, aerial transmission modules, ground receiving modules, and video conversion modules with corresponding markings for easy identificatio.

Common single mode G.657A2 bare fiber lengths for fiber optic cable spools from 1km, 3km, 5km, 10km, 15km, 20km, 25km, 30km, 35km, 40km… up to 60km. Different lengths can share the same spool size. For specific details on fiber attenuation, fiber weight, spool dimension, please consult our sales team.

Sky terminal also called aerial terminal, that is the fiber optic spool which connected to the drone. It can either include a built-in sky module or not. The sky module is the component used to transmit signals. If it includes a sky module, you will see a data interface and a green sticker at the bottom of the fiber optic cable reel for easy identification.

How to connect the GBD module with the flight controller?

There are two main ways to connect the aerial module and the flight controller: one is through a wireless Wi-Fi connection to transmit signals, and the other is through a wired connection. As shown in the image below:

How to connect the Ground Terminal and Sky Terminal?

• Firstly, connect the sky module with the fiber spool with a cable pin, according the below diagram to connect each ports.
• Secondly, bring the fiber out of the fiber spool, and connect it with the top optical interface of the ground module, the normal connector is FC UPC connector.
• Finally, we can use wireless or cable to connect with the flight controller and video monitor.

Install Fiber Optic Cable Reel Onto The Drone

Important Notes:

• 1. When installing the fiber optic reel, the fiber optic cable outlet should be kept as far away from the propeller as possible, but extra attention should be paid to the center of balance of the aircraft.
• 2. The fiber optic cable reel should be installed according to the aircraft’s tilt angle. The mounting bracket should be designed with a certain tilt angle (as shown in the figure). The installation angle should be close to the tilt angle to ensure the fiber optic cable exits horizontally.
• 3. The fiber optic spool is coated with special adhesive. The first 200 meters of the cable are the adhesive-coated area.  In this area, the aircraft’s flight speed should be controlled to within 30 km/h or 8 m/s to avoid high-speed flight in the adhesive-coated area.
• 4. The maximum flight speed of the aircraft should be controlled to within 120 km/h.
• 5. Do not allow the fiber optic cable to come into contact with water, otherwise, optical attenuation will occur, resulting in a decrease in optical transmission quality.

Operating Precautions

1. Fiber optic protection: Avoid excessive bending to prevent signal loss.
2. Environmental requirements: Store in a dry and well-ventilated place, avoiding high temperatures and humidity.
3. Standard operation: Strictly follow the procedures to connect the equipment and ensure flight safety.
4. Before using the fiber optic cable reel, be sure to remove the transport protective ties, the carbon fiber rod and protective clips. The fiber optic cable will break if you try to pull it out without removing the clips.
5. The protection cover on the FC connector at the cable reel’s output port must be removed before use. Pull out the fiber optic connector and connect it to the FC interface of the ground-side module. After connecting, ensure the connectors are properly aligned and tighten the connector.
6. Before using the fiber optic FC interface, please clean the fiber optic connector with a cleaning pen.
7. If the output optical attenuation value is greater than -15dBm, its use is not recommended.

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