Google’s Project Loon Seminar On By Ajinkya A Shelke Shri Shivaji Science College Amravati
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/.