The drones, powered by solar energy, allow you to provide Internet in rural areas, but Google decided to focus on another proposal, using balloons stratospheric
Alphabet (the parent company Google) has canceled its project Titan, which was going to bring the Internet to remote areas of the world through drones. This is an activity that the tech giant stopped making at the beginning of 2016 but it is only learned in the last few hours, according to a report in the website 9to5 Google.
The technological challenges were too great, the company said, and added that the balloons baptized as a “Loon” are a better option to achieve the goal of getting an Internet connection from the air, instead of drones , he cited today the agency DPA.
In 2014, Google purchased the development company of drones, Titan Aerospace, which also wanted to acquire Facebook . The team of this firm was built in 2015 in the laboratory of innovations to X, where many former employees of Titan are now involved in other projects, noted the company.
Meanwhile, Facebook bought another firm and developed the drone “Aquila”, the social network continues to maintain as a project. However, Aquila had his first hiccup last year, during the landing after its first flight, when the drone was severely damaged.
The two technology giants are pursuing since a long time ago ideas for getting Internet to remote areas and thus earn billions of new users to the network, in all cases, the drones and the balloons they work as antennas to 4G (or 5G) flying, which, thanks to its height and configuration can give you Internet in large areas where other types of coverage (with antennas traditional) is not cost-effective. The balloons used by the current stratospheric to travel all around the planet; they have a 4G radio and are connected to each other to be able to provide the service (passing the information from balloon to balloon until you reach one that has, in addition, a connection with a ground station); the drones use a similar system, but with solar panels on the wings to stay in flight for several months in an autonomous way.
Microsoft also has a similar program (that is testing in the country with the collaboration of the national Government) but using antennas and the frequencies of the digital terrestrial television.
The program, Project Loon continues: last year, testing began in Sri Lanka; the day before yesterday, a balloon of project Loon fell on an indigenous community in the Caribbean of Panama, where it caused surprise and confusion, and it was recovered by the local authorities. Members of Civil Protection, held for the parts of the artifact this Tuesday in the community Skeyic, in the province of Bocas del Toro, to analyze their origin, according to local media. Hours later, the Civil Aeronautics Authority (AAC) said that it was a balloon from project Loon. In August of last year one of the balloons landed in the field of the family of the model Alejandra Maglietti, in Formosa.
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