Posts Tagged ‘Wifi’
Wireless internet free for all
17
Jun
The design is from Google, according to Wired magazine, and the idea is that they would be releasing balloons in the stratosphere, the second layer after the atmosphere located between 7 – 17 and until 50 km altitude about.
According to Wired magazine, the company
is already sending balloons into the stratosphere in order to allow access to the internet anywhere on the planet, even if it is in a desert or something sea, being part of a project called Loon, who has just the “balloon”.
According to the same magazine online, the search giant already is developing an experimental project in South Africa, with the aim of connecting a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, and then expand to Southeast Asia, connecting over a billion people.
Google intends to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and balloons.
To give visibility to the campaign, Google has amassed an ecosystem of low-cost smartphones running Android in microprocessors low power consumption.
Without using the traditional infrastructure, the signal Google is performed through high altitude platforms – balloons and airships – which can transmit to the areas of hundreds of square kilometers, according to a blog post African.
