MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611058136 A) filed by Vivekananda Institute Of Professional Studies - Technical Campus on May 07, 2026, for Autonomous Drone System For Railway Optical Fiber Fault Detection And Surveillance.
Inventors include Mohd. Zuhaib Ahmed; and Dr. Deepti Chopra.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to autonomous aerial inspection systems for railway infrastructure, and particularly to a system and method for surveillance, inspection, and fault detection of railway optical fiber corridors using an aerial platform. The system includes a flight controller, propulsion system, onboard power source, navigation unit, imaging module, optional thermal sensing module, onboard processing module, communication module, storage module, and a server with a monitoring dashboard. The aerial platform is autonomously navigated along a railway-aligned mission route to capture visual and optionally thermal data of cable runs and surrounding corridor conditions. The onboard processing module identifies anomalies, generates geotagged inspection events with coordinates, timestamps, and evidence, stores inspection records, and transmits anomaly information to the server for route-wise monitoring, alerts, and historical comparison.
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