Seminar on the Project loon

Google’s Project Loon

Seminar On

By

Ajinkya A Shelke

Shri Shivaji Science College Amravati

Project LoonBalloon Powered Internet for Everyone

Introduction

Project Loon Is a research and

development project being

developed by Google Inc. with the

mission of providing Internet

access to rural and remote areas.

The basic Ideas behind this project

was that they will fly up multiple High-

altitude balloons,  that will go above

the clouds without human, that is

around 20 kilometers above the

ground level in Stratosphere.

Unofficially the project began in 2011 under

incubation in Google X with a series of trial runs in

California’s Central Valley. The project was officially

announced as a Google project on 14 June 2013

Technical Details

• The balloon measures 15 meter wide and 12 meters tall when fully inflated with helium or hydrogen,• It is made up of thin and very light polythene plastic• It is strong enough to lift the flight computer and other electronics whose weight is 10 kg.• The balloon is powered by a array of solar panel.

The balloons are maneuvered by adjusting their altitude to float to

wind layer after identifying the wind layer with the desired speed and

direction

User Connectivity

• Users of the service can connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna designed and developed by Google which is attached to their building.• The signal travels through balloon

network.• After balloon to balloon jumping it will

finally reached to the ground based station connected to an ISP then it will be global.

Design

Balloon

Solar Panel

PayloadMemory

Power Generation System

GPSProcessor

Each balloon can provide connectivity to a

ground area about 40 km in diameter uses

wireless communications technology called

LTE(Long Term Evolution). To use LTE, Project

Loon partners with telecommunications

companies to share cellular spectrum so that

people will be able to access the Internet

everywhere directly from their phones and

other LTE-enabled devices.

What about Speed

Google claims that the loon can deliver speed of 2.0MBps to

7.5MBps

Where Loon has been going

• Google began a pilot test on 16 June 2013, when thirty balloons were launched from New Zealand’s South Island and beamed Internet to a small group of pilot testers• About 50 local users in and

around Christchurch and the Canterbury Region tested connections to the aerial network using special antennas.[1]

The Nimmo family was the first to connect to balloon-powered Internet who are farmer by profession.

• It can improve communication during any disaster to

affected regions

• It will be available at all places, even in Sahara Desert

• It can improve Internet usage in developing countries

in region such as Africa and Southeast Asia that can’t

afford underground fiber cable for providing internet

connectivity.

• It is fast, efficient and more reliable than wired

broadband connection

Thank

You…

Still Curious……?

Anyone who is interested in learning how to become a Project Loon pilot tester for a future set of test launches, please log on tohttp://www.google.co.in/loon/where/.