OFDMA efficiency
Wi-Fi 6 OFDMA helps multiple devices share the channel more efficiently than older Wi-Fi 5 style access patterns.
DroneBridge DLSE
The Data Link Built for Drone Light Shows
DroneBridge Drone Light Show Edition is designed as the primary bidirectional data link for show fleets. It combines high-rate Wi-Fi, Skybrush Live support, fleet power control, OTA updates, and operator-focused tooling on affordable ESP32 hardware.
Wi-Fi6 + OFDMA Support
2.4 GHz + 5 GHz Channels
Skybrush Live Support
Fleet Update Management
Remote Power Management
Optional LED Control
Open Source Support Suite
DroneBridge as the primary data link
Choose the link that carries the show
Most light show drones carry two data links. The primary link handles the active show traffic: telemetry, commands, state, and fleet coordination. The secondary link is usually a low-bandwidth fallback channel in the 900 MHz spectrum using LoRa, Zigbee, SiK-style radios, or similar systems.
Those secondary radios can get the job done as a safety channel, but they were not designed around hundreds or thousands of synchronized aircraft on one show site. DLSE is built to be the primary Wi-Fi link for that job.
Dense Wi-Fi for dense skies
The data link for dense skies
More useful airtime for every drone on the channel
Drone shows put many devices into the same spectrum at the same time. DLSE utilises modern Wi-Fi 6 capabilities to reduce channel congestion and keep more aircraft communicating with the ground station.
Higher data rates
Shorter transmissions free airtime. That matters when a show fleet has many drones sending status and receiving commands.
2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
Dual-band support opens access to cleaner 5 GHz channels with less interference and higher practical speeds where supported.
Fleet operations
Built for the maintenance reality of 1000+ drones
Once a fleet grows, manual steps become the bottleneck. DLSE supports remote sleep, wake-up, and full shutdown when paired with an additional power management board controlled by DroneBridge DLSE. It can also monitor battery state while drones are sleeping.
OTA updates for the drone firmware and the DLSE firmware help operators avoid touching every aircraft by hand. DLSE can also control LEDs on the show drone, reducing the number of separate subsystems needed for a practical light show build.
Use the Commercial Support Suite to automate the setup & configuration of your fleet.
Hardware
Affordable Hardware
DLSE targets readily available ESP32-C5 and ESP32-C6 modules.
ESP32-C3 is supported, but not recommended for new designs.
These chips come in pre-certified Modules and can be integrated with minimal effort.
You can also check out compatible modules from partners that are designed for light show drones and are ready to go.
Integration and debugging
Ready for Skybrush Live and your own tooling
Skybrush Live out of the box
DLSE is designed to integrate with Skybrush Live so teams can get a working light show link without building the protocol layer from scratch.
Interfaces for fleet tools
Failsafe access point mode, a REST API, MAVLink parameter access, and each drone's web interface make setup and recovery less painful.
Commercial Support Suite
Ready-to-use scripts make the interfaces easier to operate across a fleet. The suite is open source, documented, adaptable, and designed to be used with AI agents.
Designed according to your needs
Built with your operational needs in mind
Show operators
- Start with a clear primary-link architecture for the whole fleet.
- Power Management: Manage your drones from a central place: remote sleep, wake-up and power-off
- OTA Updates: Update large fleets over the air.
- More Channels: Use 5 GHz channels where 2.4 GHz is crowded.
- Scale: Operate more drones on the same spectrum than with legacy systems.
- Automation: Build custom automation tools based on the Open-Source Commercial Support Suite.
- Affordable: Scale licensing one activated device at a time.
Drone manufacturers
- Reliable state of the art solution that scales.
- Build on price efficient and world-wide certified ESP32-C5 and ESP32-C6 modules.
- Ship drones with Skybrush Live compatibility from the beginning.
- Integrate power management and LED control.
- Automate flashing, activation and configuration through REST, MAVLink parameters, and scripts.
- Build custom automation tools based on the Open-Source Commercial Support Suite.
- Licensing options that fit every business with options for custom bulk licensing on request.
Licensing
Simple License Scheme
License activation flow
CreditsBuy the number your fleet needs
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ESP32Activate one DLSE device per credit
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FirmwareRun DLSE without a subscription
Simple accounting for fleets: one activated ESP32 equals one used license credit.