Google has launched 30 experiment balloons in New Zealand to analyze the circumstance of delivering internet connection via balloon. Some individuals remember this in the year 2008 this idea was talked under the auspices that Google may possibly float several balloons to provide mobile services in rural places. The idea is not relatively new, organizations provide this kind of connectivity via balloons that have been for several years. The services up to now have been rather limited however.
Project Loon in fact has likely to be much more significant to Google in the short-term compared with other initiatives similar to Google Fiber and Glass. Considering that Google is an advertising company, having a lot of people online provides a direct advantage to Google’s bottom line. The project will involve launching balloons which will float in the stratosphere, nearly 10-20 kilometers above. The preliminary evaluation has been undertaken in the Canterbury and Christchurch areas of New Zealand. The balloons are operated by solar panels, and the equipment is hung beneath the inflated balloon.
Every balloon may be able to supply coverage that spans a ground area of around 40 kilometers in diameter supplying speeds around to what 3G delivering now. The radio bands utilized in the experiment are in the unlicensed spectrum of 2 .4GHz and 5 .8GHz. The benefits over satellite connectivity are noticeable , dealing with balloons is quite a bit cheaper compared to launching a rocket. The technical challenges which will be analyzed will of course be relevant to performance, latency, and how easy the evidence of an idea does work to handle the balloons. The final thing everyone wants to take place is to observe one of these things descend into the flight pathways of commercial air traffic.
One thing that is apparently a variable is the speed. Google assures the wind speed in the stratosphere is slow, therefore making balloon survivability achievable. However, a person with any relation to aviation is aware that winds-aloft tend to be quite high, as in hundreds of miles per hour.
But still, Google’s idea does take on and since the idea has already been utilized through other applications, Google’s decide to bring it a step further will likely be remarkable to watch take to the air.
