Sydney, June 15 (ANI): Google X has revealed its secret ambitious plan of launching a ring of huge balloons moving across the globe to provide internet access to 4.7 billion people who are presently unable to use the web services.
Google is working on the plan codenamed as Project Loon and introduced a trial session with nearly 30 helium-filled balloons carrying antennae linked to ground base stations released in air to fly 20 kilometers above New Zealand, News.com.au reports.
According to the report, 50 people who participated in the trial were able to access internet as signals got transmitted from one part of New Zealand to firstly the 15-metre wide balloons that can stay in the air for nearly 100 days and then to the users' computers.
The report said that Google views the technology as useful in providing web services to catastrophe-affected zones such as the Christchurch earthquake in 2011 or the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 that had destroyed communication means and posed great problems fro rescuers, adding that at least 3G speed web access can be provided to remote and poorer areas of the world using the new project.
Google said that although the Project Loon's idea might sound strange but the concept involves pure science and the director of product management Mike Cassidy said that Google will hold discussions with the Australian government before a trial of Project Loon in Australia by 2014.
The Project Loon comes after Google's success at producing a driverless car and reality spectacles termed as the Google Glass, though it is vague if the new technology will compete or work alongside the national broadband network, the report added. (ANI)
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