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Facebook to use Drones to provide internet connectivity

By Unknown - Tuesday, 8 April 2014 No Comments

Facebook to use Drones to provide internet connectivity

Though it seems that internet is available everywhere but the reality is somewhat different.
There are many regions all around the world where the internet connectivity is troubling. The shown picture clarify the internet distribution all around the world.

                                       

Project Loon:

Google have already have a lead in this regime with its project Loon. Explaining Project Loon, Google said, "Project Loon balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather. People can connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building."
 Seeing internet as basic need  Mark Zuckerberg CEO of  Facebook have came up with a radical solutionHe announced that Internet.org, an organization that Facebook started in partnership with a few other technology companies, is experimenting with drones that are capable of beaming internet in an area from the sky.
In his original words "In our effort to connect the whole world with Internet.org, we've been working on ways to beam internet to people from the sky".
 

Zukerberg wrote on facebook:



"Our team has many of the world's leading experts in aerospace and communications technology, including from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and Ames Research Center. Today we are also bringing on key members of the team from Ascenta, a small UK-based company whose founders created early versions of Zephyr, which became the world's longest flying solar-powered unmanned aircraft. They will join our team working on connectivity aircraft." 

Solar powered drone a better option:


Facebook revealed that  a light weighted solar powered drone is a good way to accomplish the goal. "For suburban areas in limited geographical regions, we've been working on solar-powered high altitude, long endurance aircraft that can stay aloft for months, be quickly deployed and deliver reliable internet connections," Internet.org noted in a statement posted on its website. "For lower density areas, low-Earth orbit and geosynchronous satellites can beam internet access to the ground.


"Free-space optical communication is a promising technology that potentially allows us to dramatically boost the speed of internet connections provided by satellites and drones," noted Internet.org.

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