Project Loon is an initiative by Google designed to provide internet connectivity to rural and remote areas using a network of stratospheric balloons. It offers advantages such as increased internet access, weather surveillance, and uses renewable energy, but also faces challenges like high costs, maintenance issues, and internet privacy concerns. The project aims to bridge the connectivity gap for two-thirds of the global population currently without reliable internet access and is still in the experimental phase.

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WELCOME

2. SEMINAR ON PROJECT
LOON
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3. CONTENTS
 ABSTRACT
 INTRODUCTION
 PICTORIAL VIEW OF PROJECT LOON
 PROJECT LOON DESIGN
 WHERE LOON IS SITUATED
 ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT LOON
 HOW LOON MOVES
 HOW LOON CONNECTS
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGES
 APPLICATIONS
 FUTURE SCOPE
 CONCLUSION
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4. ABSTRACT
 This paper deals with the topic “Project Loon”
which can make a revolution in the year to
come.
 Many of us think that the internet as a global
community . But two-thirds of the world
population does not yet have Internet access.
 The internet is one of the most transformative
technologies of our lifetime.
 So, Google-X the secretive lab announced its
latest project known as “Balloon Powered
Internet access”.
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5. Introduction:
 What is meant by Project Loon?
Ans:
 Project loon is a network of stratospheric balloons
designed to bring internet connectivity to rural and
remote communities worldwide.
 These are network of balloons travelling on edge of
space, designed to connect people with the help of
internet access.
 It is a Google project sending hot air balloons into
air to provide Wi-Fi access.
 Project loon is also known as “Google Loon” (or)
“Balloon powered internet access”.
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6. Pictorial view of Project
loon
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7. Project loon design:
 There exist mainly three components of Loon.
1)Envelope: It is sheets of
Polythene plastic and parachute
attached to top of envelope allows
Controlled descent and landing
When a balloon is ready to service.
2)Solar Panels: It is in between
Envelope and hardware and it
Produce nearly 100 watt power in full
Sun and also charges to keep the unit
running even in Night time.
3)Equipment: It is a small box that contain
Circuit boards , Radio antennas , Batteries.
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8. Where loon is situated:
 Loon balloon float in the
stratosphere at 20 km
altitude.
 Stratosphere is the
second layer of atmosphere
with range 10-50 km altitude.
 Stratosphere is in between
Mesosphere and Troposphere.
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9. Advantages of stratosphere:
 The winds here moves steadily and slowly
between 5 and 20 mph.
 Commercial airlines fly between 9 and 12 km
altitude , thus it avoid airplane traffics.
 Most weather phenomenon occur in troposphere ,
thus they avoid adverse weather.
 This sphere is great for solar panel, because there
is no cloud to block to sun.
 The wind pattern in the sphere can be modeled
with reasonable accuracy.
 This layer is advantageous because of it’s low wind
speed and minimal turbulence.
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10. How loon Moves:
 Each layer of wind in stratosphere varies in direction.
 Software algorithms are used to determine where the
balloon need to go ,then moves it into a layer of wind
blowing in the right direction.
 By moving with the wind, the balloons can be arranged to
form one large communication network.
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11. How loon connects:
 A user with the specialized antenna sends
signals via a radio frequency over
ISM(Industrial, Scientific and Medical) bands to
a balloon close to him.
 Each balloon is equipped with a GPS for
tracking its location.
 The balloon sends signals to neighbouring
balloons. Then the signals reach the balloon
which is connected to the local internet.
 The local ISP receives the data and forward
them via balloon in the sky to the Destination.
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12. How loon connects:
 Finally, the balloon close to the receiver broadcast the data
to the ground via a radio frequency over ISM bands.
 It provide ground connectivity to an area about 40 km
diameter circle at 3G speed.
 The special antenna installed outside home receives data.
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13. Advantages:
 Easy to use
 Very speed performance
 Increase internet use with cheaper internet
 Weather Surveillance and intelligence gathering
 Use of Renewable Energy
 GPS expansion and disaster management
 Remote communication
 Launching it does not require high technical
skills
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14. Disadvantages:
 Very high in cost
 Maintenance problem
 Balloon can work for few weeks only
 Take’s more time to manufacture
 Hardware Failure
 Internet Privacy
 International politics hurdle
 Crash incidents
 Cost of operation is not revealed by Google
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15. Applications:
 It can improve communication during any
disaster to affected regions.
 It will be available at all places even in deserts
such as Sahara and in cold climate regions.
 It is fast , efficient and more reliable than wired
broadband connections.
 It can improve internet usage in developing
countries such as Africa and Southeast Asia that
can’t afford underground fiber cable for
providing internet connection.
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16. Future scope:
 Indian company specify Inc. is the first private
non-profit company which is working with outer
net to provide global free Wi-Fi access.
 Outer net is planned to begin broadcasting now
a days.
“ FORGET THE INTERNET-SOON
THERE WILL BE THE OUTERNET “
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17. Conclusion
 Project loon is a ambitious project and the world
will highly benefit from it.
 Project loon, an initiative to help fill in those
internet gaps through the use of networked
balloons.
 The goal is to provide broadband-like internet
for the two-thirds of the world that doesn’t have
access to a reliable internet connection by
balloons.
 It is still in experimental phase.
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18. REFERENCE
 http://www.google.com/loon/
 http://www.youtube.com/googleloon
 http://www.spacedata.net/
 http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/googleloon
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