In many cases, free-flying drones are the best option, but not when a permanent "on station" solution that can fly continuously during the day and night is needed. carrying a payload during completely autonomous flight to satisfy the situational needs The drone's lightweight tether transmits ground-generated power up to maintain a stable and continuous flight ceiling, ensuring the payload is deployed for the entire duration of the mission.

The tether is highly durable, portable, and certified for high voltage power transmission using either produced or mains power. A 1200N intelligent powered winch that TDS conceived and constructed is used to deploy the drone tether. To keep the flight ceiling and GPS position at all times and in bad weather, the intelligent winch communicates with the flight controller.

Clients want the assurance that all data transmitted both up and down the cable is completely safe, making the payload deployed crucial. FIPS compliant secure TLS encryption is used for both the uplinking of telemetry data and the downlinking of live broadband quality HD video or data from onboard sensors. Our tethered drone's operational deployment cannot be jeopardized by data collection or telemetry jamming.