Project Ara

1. Project ARA

2. • Introduction
• History
• Existing System
• Implementation
• Working
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Working Video
• Conclusion

3. Introduction
• Google
• Aims to open hardware platform
• Removable Components
• Highly modular phone
• Democratize the hardware ecosystem

4. History
• idea by Dave Hakkens
• Initiative By Motorola 2005-11 (Arduino)
• Snapped by Google 2012 patent
• Grey Phone 2015

5. Existing System
• size proportional to it’s life
(N3310)
• Thin Smartphone
• Non Removable Components
• Hardware updating &
Complaints need to change
whole system

6. Implementation
Two core Components needed
• The ENDOSKELTON.
• The MODULE.

7. The ENDOSKELTON.
• Body
• Available in Mini,Medium,Large
• 9.7 mm thick
• Electro permanent magnets
• Linking all modules together

8. The MODULE.
• Display, processor, camera…….
• Developer using open source
MDK (Module Developer Kit)
• Platform Independent
• Upgrade process by Piece-by-
Piece
• Electro permanent magnets

9. Technologies
• Unipro
• Capacitive M-PHY
• Electro Permanent Magnets

10. Unipro
• High speed internet protocol that project ARA use to allow its
modules to speak to each other.
• They share a common low level language for communicating and
building a networks
• Project ARA uses latest UniPRO 1.6
offers high bandwidth, low power connection between the modules

11. Capacitive M-PHY
• A physical layer spec which is developed by MIPI alliance and made
to work with Unipro
• M-PHY is a capacitive interface, which means tht points wont be
worn down over time from swapping modules in and out of the
phone
• M-PHY is requiring less pins and providing more bandwidth per pin
with improved power efficiency

12. Electro Permanent Magnets
• They are used in affixing the modules in place in the ‘ENDO’.
• Normal electro magnets magnetize depending on if current is
running through them-that would be a battery drain.
• Electro Permanent magnets only use current to flip magnetization on
and off
• it is able to retain its magnetized state without draining additional
power.

13. ADVANTAGES
• Phone is very cheap
• You only buy the features that you want.
• Phone could last INDEFINITELY (Life)
• Repairs are easier and cheaper.
• Customization
• Eco friendly/Reduce E-waste
• Share modules with family or swap with OLX/Friends
• Don’t need to throw your phone away every few years

14. Disadvantages
• It will be bigger and heavier than a Smartphone
• The connectors are bound to cause problems
• May certain Combinations wont work
• Testing Issues
• Design

15. • project ARA is on going projects
• Anyone can customize their phone as per need
• Looking to minimize the electronic waste
• Increased life span of cell phones

16. • Next generation Smartphone
project ARA is a kind of
innovation that would allow
individual to intellectually design
a modular Smartphone