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This article was published on February 1, 2016 at 16:33.
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Facebook, Amazon, Google is a partnership that is set to become increasingly tight one between the elite of the hi-tech and drones. And strategic. The last thought of the Mountain View giant, according to as reported by The Guardian, would be to unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy and can guarantee ultra-fast connections using radio waves at very high frequency.
Skybender the project, in other words, Google is testing a technology that can transmit data at a speed forty times greater than that provided by 4G networks, laying the basis for accelerated development of the fifth generation of mobile networks. For his test, the giant California would rent to a thousand dollars a day a giant hangar owned by Virgin Galactic (Virgin of the division dedicated to aerospace technologies) at Spaceport America in New Mexico and spent 300 thousand dollars for the installation of all the ‘equipment necessary for engineers to test the performance of so-called “millimeter wave”, which represent the future for many of the data.
It is a complex project, considering the different variables techniques, starting from the edge of broadcasting frequencies to 28 GHz, which would cover a distance equal to one-tenth compared with that under the current 4G standard. The use of drones for signal distribution also requires Google to focus on a new technology, called “phased array”, the functional layout of antennas whose task is to strengthen the signal in the desired direction.
Skybender, in short, is a project not without problems, beginning by the high consumption of energy which requires the use of millimeter wave. On the other hand the benefits that such a system could generate are of unquestionable importance, and above all the opportunity to provide access to a new frequency spectrum resource required (if not vital) due to overcrowding of the band dedicated to communications network Mobile.
As for the drones which is serving Google, according to well informed would be of two different types. One is the Centaur, an airplane of eight and a half meters suitable for both the fly in automatic both to the one with the pilot, while the other is a unit solar energy created within the project Titan, the division was designed by BigG in 2014 in Following the acquisition of Titan Aerospace startup to over $ 60 million.
According to a report in the Guardian, the company would have also entered into an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) American to continue testing until the end of July next. The various activities related to Skybender would be under the full control of the Access division, and therefore the working group in which Google operates the balloons Project Loon, also developed to facilitate access to the Internet in remote areas.
The challenge to excel in wireless communication systems will therefore play riding drone? Facebook, with its equipment Aquila for the transmission signal, and Google with the project mentioned above seem to want to bet a lot. Mountain View, for the moment, the official confirmation about the plans related to Skybender I am not, however, arrive.
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