Google decided to cancel the project Titan by which he sought to provide Internet to remote areas using drones.
The cause for which curbed the initiative, the u.s. company, it was because the technological challenges were too great in addition to that in accordance with the company using balloons is a best option to achieve the goal of getting an Internet connection from the air reported The Nation.
The project Titan was announced in 2014, the year Google bought the company Titan Aerospace to create a fleet of drones powered by solar energy, capable of flying more than a week while they were taking photos of the surface and provide Internet access to remote places.
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according To Jacquelyn Miller, spokesman ła company, "we’re not going to stop promoting the free access to Internet in areas that do not have connection, but we will do this through Project Loon, which uses balloons. Since this has proven to be much more viable technically and economically".
Miller detailed that a total of fifty engineers belonging to the team have already been transferred and reassigned. "We plan to leverage their expertise in this field to test in other projects such as Project Wing , a program of using drones to make deliveries by air".
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according To the environment, both the drones as the balloons work as 4G antennas flying, which, thanks to its height and configuration can give you Internet in large areas where another type of coverage is not cost-effective.
The balloons used by the current stratospheric to travel all around the planet have a 4G radio and are connected to each other to be able to provide the service, you’ll be passing the information from balloon to balloon until you reach one that is able to create 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.
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