Presentation project loon
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Project Loon is an initiative by Google to provide internet access to remote areas using balloons that float in the stratosphere, addressing the fact that two out of three people globally lack internet connectivity. Each balloon acts like a cell tower, covering 5,000 square kilometers, and is engineered to survive harsh atmospheric conditions while operating on renewable energy. The project also emphasizes environmental responsibility through the reuse and recycling of balloon materials and aims to conduct pilot tests in India in 2016.
Presentation project loon
- 2. Contents 1. About Company 2. Need of Project Loon 3. About Balloon Technology 4. Launching of Balloons 5. Navigating the Balloons 6. Equipment in Balloon 7. Connecting to Balloons 8. Recovery of Balloons 9. Pilot Test 10. Responsibility towards environment
- 3. Google Android Google chrome YouTube Search Engine Google Maps etc Google X Wing drone delivery system self-driving cars Project Aura Project Loon Alphabet Sub Division Sub Division Parent Company
- 4. What is the need? Two out of every three people on earth do not have access to internet. Project loon is the network of balloons travelling on the edge of the space, designed to connect people in remote and rural areas to internet, help fill the coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters.
- 5. About the balloon technology Balloons float in the stratosphere at a height twice as that of a airplane. Project Loon balloons are designed and manufactured at scale to survive the conditions in the stratosphere, where winds can blow over 100 km/hr and the thin atmosphere offers little protection from UV radiation and dramatic temperature swings which can reach as low as -90°C. Made from sheets of polyethylene, each tennis court sized balloon is built to last more than 100 days in the stratosphere before returning to the ground in a controlled descent.
- 6. Contd…. Project Loon has taken the most essential components of a cell tower and redesigned them to be light enough and durable enough to be carried by a balloon 20 km up in the stratosphere. All the equipment is highly energy- efficient and is powered entirely by renewable energy - with solar panels powering daytime operations and charging a battery for use during the night.
- 7. Launching of Balloons Custom-built Auto launchers are designed to launch Loon balloons safely and reliably at scale. Huge side panels provide protection from the wind as the balloon is filled and lifted into launch position, and then the crane is pointed downwind to smoothly release the balloon up into the stratosphere. Each crane is capable of filling and launching a new balloon into the Loon network every 30 minutes.
- 8. Navigating the Balloons In the stratosphere winds are stratified, and each layer of wind varies in speed and direction. To get balloons to where they need to go The positioning of the Loon fleet is adjusted and controlled in real-time from Loon Mission Control, using a combination of automatic planning algorithms and human oversight. By moving with the wind, the balloons can be arranged to provide coverage where it’s needed.
- 9. Equipment TRANSCEIVERS transmit connectivity from ground stations, across balloons, and back down to users' LTE phones. SOLAR PANEL power the equipment during the day and charge an onboard battery to allow for nighttime operation. PARACHUTE automatically deploys at the end of the balloon flight for a safe descent back to Earth. FLIGHT CAPSULE contains the brains of the system for command and control of the Loon balloon.
- 10. Connecting to Balloons Loon balloons act as floating cell towers, allowing local telecommunications companies to extend their coverage into areas that are currently unserved. In user tests, it is observed that Loon gives Internet speeds similar to that of current LTE/4G networks that many people get on their phones today.
- 11. Working Project Loon is partnering with telecommunications companies to extend connectivity into rural and remote areas so that people everywhere will be able to access the Internet directly from their phones and other LTE-enabled devices. Wireless internet signal is transmitted up to the nearest balloon from our telecommunications partner on the ground, relayed across the balloon network, and then sent back down to people in rural and remote areas. Each balloon has a coverage area of 5000 square kilometers and can serve thousands of subscribers.
- 12. Recovery of Balloons The Project Loon team tracks the location of every balloon using GPS, coordinating directly with the local air traffic control to bring each one safely to ground targeting sparsely populated areas. When a balloon is ready to be taken out of service, the lift gas keeping the balloon aloft is released and the parachute deploys automatically to bring the balloon to the ground in a controlled descent. The recovery teams then collect the equipment for reuse
- 13. The Pilot Test Project Loon began with a pilot test in June 2013, when thirty balloons were launched from New Zealand’s South Island and beamed Internet to a small group of pilot testers.
- 14. Responsibility towards Environment Google is working to guide all balloons to collection points upon descent, so that they can be reused, recycled, or responsibly disposed off. When balloons do not make it to one of these collection points, Google sends a recovery team out to collect them. The balloons’ electronics are entirely solar powered. Google is working to make the stratospheric wind data ,collected by balloons, available to the environmental science community so it can be used to improve weather and climate models.
- 15. Project Loon in India Google might be conducting pilot test for Project loon in India near the end of the year 2016. The location of the pilot is expected to be in Andhra Pradesh or Maharashtra. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been tasked with the job of zeroing in on the location and other requirements for the pilot.
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- #14: The pilot test has since expanded to include a greater number of people over a wider area including California’s Central Valley, and a connectivity test in Northeast Brazil. Project Loon will continue to expand the pilot, with the goal of establishing a ring of uninterrupted connectivity at latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, so that pilot testers in these latitudes can receive continuous service via balloon-powered Internet.