Particle

It has helped me design and build projects easily.

What do you like best? I love the entire system. I love the hardware, both Electron and Photon, as well as the IDE. I really appreciate the easy of use. I can use this entire platform to teach kids how to control hardware, collect real-world data, or whatever they can imagine; this platform makes teaching young ones easy and fun! I have two projects I’m working on now. What do you dislike? I would like better support for the Atom Editor. I seemed to have problems with it in the past. ...

Development of IoT Device

What do you like best? Integrated board with Cell Service analog & digital input/output Good on line tutorials What do you dislike? on line - or phone - support is spotty. Recommendations to others considering the product: Good product with cutting edge features. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? WE are developing device for industrial equipment to monitor equipment status and send data on a timed basis to the Particle ...

A product that can spur your creativity

What do you like best? I've worked with several µC systems before, but none of them captured my attention that much as Particle devices and the company behind them. IM(admittedly biased)O it also has the most helpful and friendly community to support new-comers as well as experienced users. What do you dislike? I definetly have too little time to do all the stuff I'd like to do with these devices. Recommendations to others considering the product: Give it a try, get involved and ...

Easy to learn, infinite posibilities

What do you like best? I like how easy it is to learn to program the Photon, how well documented it is, and the amount of possible DIY projects you can do with it. What do you dislike? Having to use a battery shield, I would like to directly plug in LIPO batteries. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Monitoring rooms with sensors

Easy to Use and incredibly powerful

What do you like best? The web dashboard is a great way to manage iot devices What do you dislike? There isn't much to dislike, I think it is a great product What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are creating sensor networks to validate Environmental factors in the buildings we design.

Works out of the box!

What do you like best? End to end security architecture as well as clearly documented information on how various features can be used What do you dislike? Lack of data storage ability and data visualization tools What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Customized, low volume solutions where internet connectivity is required

Cutting edge IoT with a focus on usability and product scaling.

What do you like best? Great support and development solutions for any level of experience. They are focused on helping customers from prototype to product, no matter what the size of your company. I've used every iteration of their products and their hardware iterations are always an improvement. What do you dislike? Their initial dev boards deprecated quickly, but now that they are through their growth spurt it is much easier to grow with their products. Recommendations to others ...

Why I like Particle for IoT

What do you like best? I have been working with Particle devices in my personal projects and on products. Out of the box I am able to get cloud connectivity and get productive quickly. I like the fact that they offer devices with WiFi, Cellular and soon Mesh, which allows me to pick the device best suited to my design while maintaining unprecedented portability in code as I move between them. Besides being well designed, their development tool offerings allow me to select what works best ...

Build locally, flash anywhere

What do you like best? I enjoy being able to build and save code locally so that I can version control it. Being able to manage my code libraries and easily see other examples is also a huge advantage. What do you dislike? Sometimes setting up the folder structure can be a bit cumbersome. Also, it doesn’t have intellisense. It just remembers previous words you have typed and can recommend from that list only. Recommendations to others considering the product: Take advantage ...

 Experts in business processes

What do you like best? Ability to connect to different local operators. Ability to connect to different technologies: 2G, 3G, 4G and, soon, 5G. Possibility of connection without steering. Combined consumptions Billing according to the contract and without surprises. Better market costs. Flexible and tailored. Offer tailored according to the volume of consumption per use (data / SMS / voice). What do you dislike? Long time when it comes to implementation of many ...