Chennai-born Google CEO, 43-year old Sundar Pichai, had
some anxious moments during the recent floods in the city as he was
unable to reach his family members.
While Mr.
Pichai’s relatives are now confirmed to be safe, he said that amid
natural disasters — like the one in Chennai where people get cut off
from the grid — Google’s Project Loon that uses helium-filled balloons
to provide data connectivity in remote areas could be of great help.
“When
a natural disaster hits, people often get no network coverage, as it
happened in Chennai as well. Project Loon is focussed on providing
connectivity in rural areas, and we can use software to position these
balloons to areas where there’s no coverage or network capacity is
less,” Mr. Pichai said, in a meeting with editors here on Wednesday.
“People are figuring out the right model for providing aerial data connectivity without towers and optic fibre cables,” he said.
Each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area of about 40 km, says Google
Source :- The Hindu, 17-Dec-2015
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