Facebook to use Drones to provide internet connectivity
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014
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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 solution. He 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.
