# Particle Reviews **Vendor:** Particle **Category:** [IoT Development Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-development-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 195 ## About Particle Particle is the leading edge-to-cloud infrastructure for the Internet of Things, helping thousands of companies power world-class connected machines, sensors, and devices. Particle provides everything you need to build an IoT product in one tightly-integrated platform, so you can focus your time and energy on what matters: your product, application, data, and customers. Hundreds of manufacturers, thousands of startups, and 260,000 developers use Particle to power their IoT products; to learn more, visit particle.io. ## Particle Reviews ### 1. Particle is a best in class IoT platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Particle?** The hardware and software is reliable and adaptable for a number of IoT applications. It is fast to deploy in prototypes and robust and fully featured for deployment in demanding applications. Their team is invested in the success of devices built with their solution and the support is fast and well informed. It is our go-to platform for all things IoT. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The pricepoint of the platform is not well suited to consumer products. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Particle solves the problem of connecting anything, anywhere, and quickly. Their platform allows us to focus on the application of technology without having to worry about the technology stack itself. For example, I can build a device that focuses on the sensors, actuators, and logic I need to do the job without having to worry about building out bespoke hardware and frameworks for each application. Their tools allow reliable and fast connectivity and their built in OTA for all of their products has saved our company a lot of time and potential headaches. They continue to improve their tools and hardware every year and make sure developers like us are well-equipped to build what we need. I never have to worry about the Particle system just working straight out of the box. ### 2. Good for prototyping and quick product deployments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** - If you are starting from scratch, Particle hands down provides the fastest way to design, develop and deploy a product. We deployed and released our first product with Particle within 12 months of starting development. This included full certification and a manufacturing line. - Particle cloud services and dashboards are the real add-on value here. Dashboards provide quick ways to deploy FOTA, monitor your fleet, SIM card integration for cellular devices etc... are crucial to managing an IoT fleet. - Great documentation & support for developers. This is important for any platform and is seriously underrated. - Platform is mature and easy to use. Minimal learning curve. - Hardware is fully certified and tested (i.e., FCC etc...) **What do you dislike about Particle?** - Dashboard is great but lacks features such as fleet health notifications, breakdown of API calls per device or fleet and other tools to debug failures - Particle being a platform, has depreciated all their Gen3 products just three years after releasing them, making the initial hardware no longer available. This is terrible from a consumer standpoint as engineering time, development efforts, and certification costs will have to be done for new hardware - Depreciation of significant features such as mesh. One of the key features Particle had was the ability to mesh devices together. This separated their system from other competitors. Unfortunately, this feature was also depreciated. - Pricey, scaling up large fleets of IoT devices eventually become very pricey with Particle, if you have no need for their cellular integration and only require Wi-Fi devices. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Particle is essentially a Platform As A Service (PaaS); this is exactly what we needed to start building and get to market ASAP without worrying about the basic foundation of developing, managing an IoT fleet and manufacturing our own hardware/devices. ### 3. Particle Boron LTE **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guillermo V. | Internet of Things Research Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Really well designed and made, with great community support, but really terrible customer service **What do you dislike about Particle?** Particle doesn't even bother to follow up with open tickets . Really terrible customer service **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asset tracking as well as enviromemtal and biomedical ### 4. Developer focused IoT platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc L. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** The ability to build apps without dealing with the infrastructure **What do you dislike about Particle?** Developer language is too low level and firmware updates are not separate from apps. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed IoT apps to scan for asset beacons, so we can focus on the business value ### 5. A good product for IoT enthusiast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emil T. | Junior product developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** The software interface is nice and valuable. Good community for clearing doubts **What do you dislike about Particle?** Sometimes there is lag in the connectivity **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Water leak detection and it helps in connecting the hardware with the software ### 6. Ideal for testing purposes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Commercial Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Quick setup and thriving and active community. Documentation is good and helps you write good code. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The prices when scaling up. 4G and Simcard options are very pricy leading us very quickly to move away from particle and choosing our own hardware now that we are scaling up. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Pricing for scaling up is the reason for our company to move away from the particle. So working on that aspect might have kept us on board, but as discussed earlier with the account managers this is not Particle's main focus and thus we agree that choosing our own path is the better option for us to do. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test mesh networking capabilities. Yes, but deprecated Manage OTA and end to end security. Yes ### 7. IoT solution for fast applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The platform is very complete for the different types of applications you may be designing, managing the product by monitoring their status is very handy, you can watch the status of the smart items even with your phone app. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The need to stay connected to the cloud, you can not manage easily while the system you design with the particle devices is working offline, I would like to have the same easy managing system when working offline. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Try the services and products, it is a good start if you are new into IoT. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looking to elevate our efficiency on the production floor, currently, building data to evaluate the availability of the manufacturing infrastructure is the business goal. ### 8. Particle for peace of mind **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron H. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** We switched our sensor interface board’s logic/communication chip over from using Particle to a competitor’s micropython based boards. After we did, we had nothing but problems - from hardware failures to cellular connectivity issues to kernel panics. We were constantly trying to engineer new hardware and software approaches to mitigate all of the new and exciting ways that that board would find to crash. We finally got sick of it and switched back to Particle Boron and our stability has increased tremendously. I used to wake up every morning and check out backend metrics dashboard to find out which devices had stopped reporting. Now that we are back with Particle and have swapped out the last of our devices, I haven’t had to do this in weeks. They just work like they are supposed to. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The only thing I dislike (and the reason we moved away from Particle to begin with) is being forced to use AT&T in the United Stares for data on the Boron devices. We just didn’t have coverage in a lot of our area, but fortunately the coverage has improved in recent months. Having a Verizon option (the ublox chip can support it and is already an approved Verizon module, Particle just doesn’t submit the IMEI numbers to Verizon) would be amazing. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are building completely off grid sensor interface boards for real time data collection and monitoring, specifically for ground water monitoring of things like wells, flumes, and springs. Most of these sites are in the middle of the wilderness and Particle makes it possible for us to monitor these sites without sending a person down to pull metrics from a data logger once a month. This lets us make business decisions around this data much faster. ### 9. IoT for Hobbyist to Commercial **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill W. | Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I switched to Particle because of the built-in connectivity. I am a novice at microcontrollers, so anything I can do to simplify the process is well worth it. When I received my first wi-fi Particle (a Photon), and again later when I bought my first cellular unit (an Electron), I was overwhelmed at how quickly the claim and communicate process worked. Following through with Variables, Functions, Publish, and Subscribe makes the process of exposing the Particle and controlling it extraordinarily simple. Add OTA flashing and, well, what’s not to like? **What do you dislike about Particle?** I struggle a little with getting definitive information about specific functions. The Reference documents and Tutorials are okay, and the Community certainly helps, but I’d really like to be able to dig into a comprehensive reference document that provides accurate and complete information about how certain functions and models operate. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’m developing a service for business owners which allows me to remotely control a part of their facility. The businesses for which I’ve piloted my service have been very enthusiastic about it. Having a cellular interface means that I don’t have to rely on the business for any part of the connectivity. In an earlier version, I was relying on the owners’ wi-fi, which led to a number of “failures” that I eventually traced to changes they’d made to their own wi-fi. ### 10. Particle Dev Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** - Thorough Documentation - Timely bug/outage reports - Helpful community forum with engaged Particle devs **What do you dislike about Particle?** Lack of code testing integration/documentation **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote connectivity management OTA updates and OS level security updates ### 11. Goo experience **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** Particle has been helpful in filling a technology gap for our product. Their team has been responsive. From what I can tell their hardware does exactly what it has been designed to do with only minimal troubleshooting required **What do you dislike about Particle?** Have not experienced any notable downsides as of yet **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us bridge a technology gap in door access ### 12. A great place to start with IoT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Particle?** The robust developer community was the hook for the company which implemented particle. I freelanced for said company and they wanted an IoT solution that works from the cloud and uses lesser bandwidth than any other solution in the market. The cellular+mesh was a great place to start exploring. **What do you dislike about Particle?** While the Web IDE allowed us to write code from the browser, it was slightly buggy at times not being able to flash it. However, this isn't a deterrent but more of an irritant. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Start small and work upwards when you are starting with IoT solutions. Going all in should have a dedicated team working on it and not part time consultants. Also, the cost of implementation with consultants work out higher than having an in house team handling the implementation and maintenance. Cloud solutions are better than on-premise IoT software. There are a number on startups in this space and it is worth giving everyone a fair chance to present and mainly evaluate what each of them have to offer. Value plays an important role but more than that ease of use and reliability should be the key points to make note of. If your building needs green certification then please make sure your IoT solution has the requisites to make the cut. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** The entire of the building's IoT management is done from the cloud using the Particle mesh. This helps reduce the man hours on the site. ### 13. Particle makes it easy for creators and makers to create IOT products **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarit A. | Sr Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Particle makes it easy to onboard and connect to cloud. With its cloud functions, it makes it easier for makers and creators to create IOT products and solve real problems, with less friction. It provides an ecosystem, which reduces dependencies on multiple platforms which helps with easy onboarding, monitoring and troubleshooting of your IOT applications. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Would love to see more simple out of the box integrations and examples. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** If you are starting in IOT, particle is the best platform to start with **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Home automation and environmental apps focused towards ambient intelligence. ### 14. Becoming 'old reliable.' **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Combination of a powerful device and reliable support. The support is prompt and extremely competent. I recognize names from the very early days of using a Photon. They've grown up with the product and very knowledgeable. **What do you dislike about Particle?** It's sometimes frustrating to deal with the tool glitches. It's not yet bulletproof like Arduino. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used a Photon like a 'super Arduino DUE' to rapidly develop closed loop control applications that I then later install on DUEs for students. The Photon memory and throughput is outstanding. That allows me to make some mistakes without crashing. Fast development. I also used Photon for closed loop projects around the home: thermostat and climate control. I like the web connectivity for integrating with Blynk. Cloud flashing is very convenient for updates to a device installed in an awkward spot. Photons are durable. When I finished those projects I let the Photons run form 5+ years they never needed attention. ### 15. Solid IoT platform with an amazing support community **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles M. | Owner, Technology Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I like that I have options of WiFi and Cellular along with a robust software development platform and an incredibly helpful support community. **What do you dislike about Particle?** I'd like the console to have some additional features for searching for devices. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing low-cost, high-value tools for the commercial HVAC industry. Particle has enabled me to develop both highly valued multi-point equipment monitoring solutions as well as low-cost targeted devices for monitoring critical environmental parameters. ### 16. Industrial stability and world class integration **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The reliability of Particle products. Also the integration brings many possibilities. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Not enough inputs. It would be great to have. a device with more I/Os. I also wish there were more accessories such as Screw Terminal Breakout Board Expansion Shields. Now in 2021, I find it lacks processing power. It's really too slow. A much cheaper bare ESP32 is much much much faster. If you want speed, Particle is no longer competitive. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** First setup with Android is not so reliable. On iPhone and CLI it works great. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use particle to prototype fast. The benefit is fast prototyping. ### 17. Very effective IoT platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles M. | Technology Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Ease of development and a very cost-effective solution. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Greater resources for taking it from development to production, particularly with the issue of creating accounts & tokens for users. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** It's certainly worth serious consideration and has a low threshold of cost (money and effort) to take it for a test ride. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring commercial facilities. ### 18. Great! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zachary W. | Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Easy to program, great core, bootloader, no hassle. OVER THE AIR PROGRAMMING **What do you dislike about Particle?** Particle Cloud costing extra, but you can still use the boards without it so not a big deal. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asset tracking, battery management. Able to utilize cellular rather than LoRa or Bluetooth gateways ### 19. I love my Photon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yannick G. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** So easy to develop with, that browser based IDE is great ! **What do you dislike about Particle?** Nothing much to say on this side, it’s great. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Made all my led strips homekit compatible. ### 20. Easy deploy and manage connected devices with great reliability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Online statistics and flashing makes it easy to manage connected devices without access. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The cellular connectivity is optimized for the particle SIM and uses more data with 3rd party SIMs due to sleep and reconnect. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Particle makes prototyping connected systems easy and cost effective. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using particle internally on a wood network to monitor and data log pressure switches and temp sensors. ### 21. Good documentation and Scalability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** - Documentation - Prototyping to production transition support - Particle console interface **What do you dislike about Particle?** - Learning curve a bit steep at the beginning - Not possible to use custom SIM cards on e-series and b-series modules - Does't support out-of-the box all Arduino libraries - CLoud IDE limited **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying mobile air quality sensors in multiple regions in the world ### 22. End to end implemented product with Hard ware and software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NISARUDDIN M. | Technical Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Particle io Internet of Things devices provides complete End to End integration and deployment in the cloud. And like the way, they perform analytics with Artificial intelligence and Machine learning. And multiple sensors embedded into a single board. We can add our own required external sensors too with a female connector. Particle devices come with better rechargeable batteries and for recharge, we can use our smartphone adapter with a cable. I mean to say that we can charge devices with multiple cables. We can customize the functionality of sensors and devices with the build. particle io web Integrated development environment. And flash our customizable code into it. **What do you dislike about Particle?** At present, I am using Tracker One it's not embedded with Temperature sensors that give environmental temperature. The size of the device is the big user can carry the device to give false data. I mean to say that when the device is in with the truck driver he may take it out and feed false data. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** When compared to other Internet of Things distributors particle is providing a complete end-to-end Internet of Things kit with various configurations and various sensors photon, Argon, Boron, Tracker one, etc. we can customize it with C++ code. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** LIve data visualization with the Internet of Things. With tracker one we are collecting live data of vehicles and visualizing real-time. Real-time visualization with the google cloud platform. Microsoft Azure platform. or we are able to use Thingspeak with webhook provided by Particle io. ### 23. Excellent IOT platform with low barrier to entry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The devices are low-cost, but very powerful. The cloud platform behind it is robust and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Some particle devices have not stayed on the market, which leads to concerns about long term investment **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Particle is a great IOT platform backed by a great suite of services. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have build several home automation projects using the platform and they have all been very successful. I’ve been able to automate things at relatively low cost ### 24. Best Cellular Development Option **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zach W. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Comprehensive tools for successful end to end development of the IoT **What do you dislike about Particle?** Supply chain shortage is causing Boron LTE to be sparsely available. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote soil sensors for soil health analysis at scale on farms. ### 25. Particle devices are great for online or distance learning and over-the-air programming! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Engr. Alexander Co A. | Asst. Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I can teach the basic concepts of microcontrollers with actual demonstration and actual over-the-air programming in an online or distance learning set-up. The programs or sketches are very similar to Arduino. You can upload sketches anywhere, anytime using the WebIDE. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Sometimes the device disconnects or needs some resetting/re-flashing. It is also difficult to upload sketched locally or when you do not have an internet connection. I know that the devices are mainly created for IoT, but I do hope there is an easy way to upload sketched using a computer that is not internet connected. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Particel devices are great for online learning! **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using the devices for online teaching or distance learning. The students can upload or modify programs remotely at the hardware level. This setup demonstrates a clear concepts about Internet-of-Things, teleoperation, and also the OSI layers. Although there are many online simulators on different MCU, these simulators are on the application layer. Particle devices used in online teaching/learning give the students actual experience of over-the-air programming. They can do firmware level updates. During this covid19 pandemic and lockdowns, teleoperated laboratory setups using particle devices are very helpful. ### 26. Great product for some applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ram N. | Director, IOT, Data & Analytics, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Particle cloud platform is clean, well designed. The API's are powerful and provide a good feature set to build some powerful applications. The devices are also extremely stable. Of the 400+ devices we used only couple were bricked. The 3rd Gen hardware is quite capable even though the devices are tiny. Well designed device level security and platform flexibility, make it a good platform choice for a lot of IOT applications in real world. The particle community has been pretty awesome. Easy to find help when faced with quirky issues. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Abrupt discontinuation of Mesh support & Xenon devices hurt us badly. The application we built was heavily reliant on mesh. Cost us a lot of development hours to redesign and we still haven't been able to get the devices working reliably, as we are dependent on Wi-Fi or Cellular signal at each device (unlike a mesh network). Lack of 900Mhz support makes is difficult as the devices only support 2.4Ghz, which tends to be a crowded spectrum in industrial environments. Also, support only for AT&T networks limits the Boron devices capability. Our experience has been that there is better Verizon coverage in rural areas. The official support for Verizon has been delayed multiple times and is still 6 months away as of now. I really hope they bring back mesh support. That will make the device extremely powerful and usable over a lot of industrial IOT applications. Once Particle is able to design greater reliability in "Internet" part of the IOT, I would be willing to endorse this IOT platform very strongly. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** There are some use cases for which particle is an excellent choice. In some cases, it is just not possible to obtain the reliability in the data/sensing due to lack of some critical features for an Enterprise/Industrial setting. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Particle devices to collect data and improve Wrapper machine performance. Our previous hardware was using non-standard/custom protocols and old hardware which was reaching EOL. Using particle has made it cheaper, offer lot more functionality and ability to build a strong foundation, that we can expand on in future. ### 27. Particle - great IoT hardware and software platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fabio E. | Advisory Board Member, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** - Particle gives you the tools to create a profesional IoT product: : a platform to to manage the entire IoT network having visibility of the devices, health and connectivity status and others. - The hardware that connects straight to the cloud is an advantage. It provides a software abstraction that saves development efforts to handle all cloud connection issues. This gives you time to market. - The availability of 3G and Wifi hardware options. - The community is very active in terms of sharing experience and providing support. **What do you dislike about Particle?** - The documentation in some topics lags a lot behind the speed of development so using some existing or new features is many times try and error which can be frustating. - Many questions could be easily answered with better documentation and the community is flogged with question on "how to use xxx.. the documentation is not clear or does not say anything..." -As we are in the manufacturing sector, we'd like to see more development into the wired Ethernet capabilities. -There has been many firmware release lately so sometimes is difficult to keep up with your product. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** We created an IoT cloud based service to monitor and measure productivity from industrial machines. The benefits are productivity improvements and cost savings for our customers with the real-time insights we provide them. We measure production minute per minute so our customers can make 10% or more improvements (saving time, producing faster or even saving money in capturing data) ### 28. Excellent Documentation & Developer Community - Particle Argon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael M. | Business Development Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The support, developer community, technical documentation, and the scalability of the Particle platform. I have run into several issues with the compiling my code and the users on the particle forum have helped troubleshoot my issues. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The only issue with Particle platform is that there seems to be a slightly larger learning curve for beginners in the Arduino world. I am mostly familiar with the Arduino IDE, so I had to do a little digging to see what I could and couldn't do with the Particle platform. Another thing is that some of the standard Arduino libraries may be fully supported on the particle platform. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Make sure that all of the libraries you need to use are actively supported with the Particle platform. I would also recommend using the Particle Workbench extension in Visual Studio Code for easier and quicker deployment of firmware to the board. The online IDE is excellent for Over-the-Air firmware updates, but it makes the initial prototyping take longer. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** For my engineering capstone project, my team and I are using a Particle Argon as the main processing unit for a custom ultrasonic flow meter. We like the the scalability and production-ready characteristics of the Particle platform. Our meter will be used throughout different countries and the data plan Particle drastically simplifies our logistics. As we finalize our meter design, our client plans to mass produce our meter (given that it bodes well in the field). This is really the core advantage of the Particle platform in that once we have a prototype, we can adjust our design to use a more production-ready chip. Another excellent feature is the connectivity of the Particle boards, one of the requirements of our meter is the ability to use it in foreign countries and access the flow data. ### 29. Simplicity of Arduino with effortless web connectivity out of the box **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marko G. | Senior Frontend Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I don't want to pick just one best thing, there are several reasons that make the experience positive and are the reason why I recommend Particle to anyone who is building IoT projects. 1. Simple internet connectivity: Built-in and effortless internet connectivity that makes accessing the device simple yet secure, without having to develop special dashboards. 2. Documentation: Every API function is meticulously documented, explains the functionality in a simple manner and it's always kept up to date. 3. DeviceOS updates: The DeviceOS updates make the Photon faster with every version, and the nice thing is that I do not have to buy a new device to get the upgrade. I can do it on all the devices, regardless of the age, even my 5+ years old Photon. The VS Code plugin makes it very simple to pick the new deviceOS version and flash it to the device. 4. Cloud compile: With the cloud compile, I do not have to download and set up the toolchain, just click a button and the device is automagically updated in less than a minute. Tying that to point 3., this also works with DeviceOS updates, again allowing me to install a new version without having to wait for downloads and set up a new toolchain. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Can't think of anything, for my use cases the experience was flawless. The only problem I had was in the transition to deviceOS@2-RC (Release Candidate). But that is kind of expected since it was not a stable release. The problems were resolved with the version of deviceOS@2.0.0. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** I strongly recommend particle for personal projects, especially when there is a requirement to be able to wirelessly access the device status or to update some of the parameters. I have multiple devices and I will buy more for future projects. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Controlling an RGB LED strip for room ambient lighting. 2. Remote keyboard controller which can be controlled via the Particle dashboard from any authenticated device. I am planning a system to detect the water level in a large rainwater tank to prevent overflows or running out of water. ### 30. Rapid Connected Device Development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik W. | Senior Reliability Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Particle allows my company to quickly build IOT solutions that are designed to exactly fit the needs of my customers. This enables them to do things that makes their jobs simpler and faster. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Using particle over a platform like Arduino has large advantages in terms of ease of connectivity, but there isn't quite as much documentation all over the web, nor as many libraries built on the platform, so it at times excludes more novice programmers from being able to actualize a project. This in general adds some time to projects. I personally would like to see some supported branching into machine learning inference on device. This is a huge opportunity. I have personally used random forests on device with much success and am in the process of getting Googles Tensorflow lite micro running on device. Having a library for this would make the process much simpler, and allow novices to leverage this powerful technology. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Customized asset tracking solutions for businesses. - Monitoring for inland lakes - Remote alerting in industrial environments. The ease of connectivity really allows for simple solutions to complex problems. ### 31. Great Platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob R. | Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I like the ability to create a product that I can quickly take to market with advanced cloud-based features. **What do you dislike about Particle?** I don't like how the BlueTooth mesh products were discontinued. The Documentation is lacking in a lot of areas, I had to do a lot of "google-fu" to get the features that I wanted operational. I wish that the development platform was a little more robust. Over voltage protection would've saved me a few dollars when I mistakenly connected the wrong-voltage to supply my circuit. I feel like they are trying to force me to LTE products that would require a monthly fee, which makes sense as a business, but doesn't make sense for me where I'm at in the current development of my product. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** I think it's a great platform for building IOT devices. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to get a few BT features working that I really wanted to experiment with. I have realized that I really don't need the entire Particle platform for THIS particular project and this particular application, but I can see where it would be extremely helpful in other applications. ### 32. Using Particle to Teach Engineering Design **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Noah S. | Assistant Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Particle is a well designed and integrated hardware and software ecosystem. Having all of the development tools online makes it easy to work on projects from any computer, regardless of operating system. The available IOT starter kits make it easy for students to all have the same hardware and software setups, which makes remote teaching and troubleshooting easier. **What do you dislike about Particle?** It can be overwhelming for beginners to use, with a lot of different features and errors generated during the debugging process are not always clear or helpful. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Particle's support of the Grove Sensor ecosystem is great, it allows for easily connecting dozens of different sensors and output devices to the Particle boards, which in turn makes it very easy to upload the sensor data to the internet. In addition to the sensors supplied and supported by Particle, many others are available that are inexpensive and easy to use. There are lots of great resources available both on Particle's own website as well as elsewhere on the web that can help you to quickly and easily develop solutions to problems such as how to get Particle data into a Google spreadsheet. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Particle primarily as a way to teach problem solving and prototyping as part of an interdisciplinary sophomore-level engineering design course. Particle's online platform and starter kits made rolling out this curriculum during the COVID pandemic much easier, and facilitates collaboration between students and allows me to easily review their code and help them troubleshoot their projects. Having good example code and libraries makes it easy to quickly prototype and test out ideas. ### 33. Saves me a back end cloud team to roll products quicker **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy P. | Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Technical Team Lead / Manager), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Particle?** VERY quick time to market with the abstraction of authentication and back end cloud, I can route data and interact with devices without worrying about having an entire dev ops staff or company on retainer **What do you dislike about Particle?** The cost per device is higher than off the self expressif type components which offer a lower total cost per device, but are overcome by the development and IT cost of the backend. At some point, the total deployed devices will tip the scales to the point where the higher device cost will trump a full time dev ops staff - although, that's the point when we start talking about devices in the millions mark. The Cloud IDE is very quick and fast but without an integration with any type of code versioning (i.e. git). **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Back end cloud integration with other systems and device to device communication is a few system functions, no worry about encrypting or directing traffic. Over all the time to market is extremely quick, especially for prototypes. ### 34. Fast prototyping with solid results **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin F. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The ability to flash via WiFi and USB. The flexibility of both those options means that it's great for quick prototyping at a desk as well as debugging and integration testing after assembly when it might be hard to plug into a computer. Also, the in-depth documentation of the devices and related software is really amazing. Aside from the note below I have found almost everything I need just from reading your docs. **What do you dislike about Particle?** There isn't much I don't like. The only real headache I have had with any of my experiences so far would be getting the particle cli setup to detect my particle devices on Ubuntu. The docs were not super clear in that regard. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly hobbyist type problems and just general IoT projects. My favourite problem I was able to solve was an automated blind opening/alarm clock project. I am also currently tackling a project using Argons as BLE beacons. Honestly, the biggest benefit of the Argon is its flexibility. Remote flashing, BLE, WiFi, LiPo charging all in one small package is just hard to find for a good price with good supporting docs. ### 35. Very easy to use and possesses a wide range of capabilities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Timothy Scott C. | Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I like that I can produce my own functions similar to Python and I could call them along the code. I like that it is similar to Arduino C, which I am familiar with. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The libraries could offer a bit more; or rather, I find a way (I know a guide is there somewhere) to import/upload my own libraries for my use case. Hoping it could be simpler **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** It's best to just dive into it. It's syntax is very similar to Arduino C, so if you have concerns on it, there are online simulations to practice; however, it's a relatively easy syntax and getting right into it gives you a more hands on learning experience. In addition, the Web IDE has sufficient guides to use as reference as well as online video tutorials. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the projects that I am working on is the use of swarm technology for land canvassing. We're not using the commercialized drones since they're expensive, the particle component allows me to see where the drone is going without using the traditional Transceiver and Receiver antenna which can get quite heavy. ### 36. From startup to full fledged company **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roberto L. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Having been an early adopter since the initial Spark Core Kickstarter campaign I can say the Company has evolved around its ability to relate to a constantly growing community of passionate supporters. The Particle platform has immediately demonstrated its attractiveness and power, but the road has not always been paved in golden stones but Particle didn't have a problem in admitting their failure and keep moving forward: well done, failure is a key part of growth, and there is no shame in admitting it. **What do you dislike about Particle?** I would have appreciated some sort of compensation for those who, like me, tried to use the Particle mesh network but now have a bunch of devices with limited capability and troublesome updating process. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** It's the easiest IoT platform I have seen and it was an amazing experience as an early adopter. If you want to prototype something without having to deal with all the fuss, I strongly advise giving Particle's devices a good try: you won't be disappointed and you don't have to invest a capital just to start. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating connected device prototypes has become a breeze, I can move from idea to prototype in less than an hour in most cases. I haven't succeeded in bringing any of those prototypes to production yet, but this is not discouraging me. ### 37. Easiest solution to get up and running **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew M. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Particle products are extremely easy to setup and get running out of the box. Going from a brand new device to an IoT design can be a matter or seconds. The ease of programming updates over the air and via the particle cloud makes the setup very easy. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The only downsides (which some would consider an upside) is the hidden use of the arduino frameworks. It can get quite complicated if you want to do something on the device that isn't supported. Though it's very rare to need things that aren't part of the native support, but something like taking over the network if you want the particle to be a server and not talk to the particle cloud can be difficult. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** If you're looking for a product to get your IoT from idea to implementation quickly, Particle is the way to go. I use Particle products for all of my home automation products and whenever I need to do a quick embedded system integration. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm currently running all of my local home automation products on a particle. It is simply the best rapid prototyping device on the market period. And the particle IoT cloud app makes testing designs (reading variables, testing functions) remotely super easy. ### 38. A great microcontroller with cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio M. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Surprisingly simple, seamless and reliable cloud. It has a great API for integrating with third party services. The community around it is great and offers assistance whenever needed. Arduino sensors compatibility is also a great plus! Tinker mobile app is a great way for rapid prototyping on a mobile ecosystem as well. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Having bluetooth and wifi as a separate module on a single board would be a great upgrade. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Absolutely consider if you need a good microcontroller. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Particle in a prototype for a yeast growth measuring device. We use it to control the necessary sensors and acquiring data, sending them to the cloud. It is surprisingly simple to collect and upload data, and using Particle has greatly reduced time and effort we put in collecting and uploading data from our tests. I would absolutely recommend Particle to anyone who has a need for such a service. ### 39. Excellent Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris L. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** From the first time I set eyes on the particle photon I was interested and had to have one. Once I received the product I found that the photon is one of the easiest products to use. I have used and own multiple Arduino and esp products but prefer the particle photon over all. I am in an industry where I rely on temperature, humidity, dew point and GPP, I am able to connect various sensors and have them send the real-time data back to an in office database server for review. I used to have to make sure visits to gather the same Psychrometric readings. Anyone would be very happy to have a product this easy to use. **What do you dislike about Particle?** I really haven't found anything I dislike. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned previously I am able to gather remote Psychrometric readings instead of attending sites. ### 40. Particle makes IoT development unbelievably easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jim H. | Software Engineering Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** How easy and rapid it is to develop complex IoT projects to do many different types of things. The SDK and cloud platform take away all of the many months of complexity of standing up a new piece of embedded hardware in weeks or even days. This is no small accomplishment. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Tied too tightly into Particle's cloud. Would like it to be easier to go to production with other cloud systems. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** I've done a lot of embedded programming both on MCUs and SBCs like Rpi. This is about as easy and rapid of development as it gets while leading you into excellent design principles. Do yourself a favor and at least do a proof-of-concept with Particle and put it to the test. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm creating an IoT sensor platform for room monitoring, things like temperature, relative humidity, etc. ### 41. Positive Particle Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael M. | Senior Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The product works very well as advertised. The support has been excellent. The fact that we do not have to deal with cellular service providers is the main reason for choosing Particle. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Documentation is updated prematurely. Some features were not available with current release but the documentation provided instructions for future releases which led to costly time consuming troubleshooting. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** We have had very reliable service without the hasstles of dealing with cellular service providers. This saves us countless hours and much frustration. We moved to this platform a two years ago and have not regretted the decision. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the E-Series for asset tracking within our product. We have seen reliable, consistent service for a decent price and no worry back end service. ### 42. Powerful platform for managing a fleet of IoT devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dylan C. | Graduate Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The Particle console is a really powerful tool that gives you access to all of your devices on a single dashboard. The ability to OTA flash any software updates to your particle products is huge. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Coming from the Arduino IDE, the learning curve in VS Code/Particle Workbench is steep. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Particle has enabled me to deploy a fleet of IoT devices and manage them efficiently. Environmental data logging with traditional Arduino-type microcontrollers is challenging--each board needs its own unique code, you need to keep track of SD cards in the field--the Particle Boron and the Particle Console simplify all of that. Now I maintain one code base and am able to manage all of the devices on a single online dashboard. ### 43. Boron a great replacement for LTE applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chuck A. | T, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The Paticle universe has been very well thought out and and implemented. It is rich in depth and functionality. The documentation is extensive and constantly evolving and the forums and support staff have always had timely solutions. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Any system that offers such a range of features comes with layers of complexity. While most problems can be solved through the documentation, it's not always easy to find where, in the documentation, the answer lives. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Had to do a quick migration from Adafruit FONA to a non-2G solution. The Boron was an easy drop-in (although required a re-worked PCB) . The software changes to support the Boron were pretty straight-forward and the Boron has worked flawlessly after a fast development cycle. (fingers crossed). ### 44. Amazing fast working mini computers. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karlis Adrians B. | Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I love how you can make a mesh network and connect these sensors together over the cloud. Update them without having to connect them to your computer. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The only problem i've noticed is that sometimes my photon just freezes up for a second. If I'm trying to make something with a quick clock, there's times where it goes behind the timer. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Build the best project you have in mind guys, be innovative. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Im a quite recent owner of the particle and I'm a student so I don't really have any big projects yet, but I really love the over-the-cloud availability, I don't have to take my project apart just to upload and test the code. ### 45. Particl Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marvin F. | Technical Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Ease of use and implementation. Initially I had some issues with my hardware, no fault of Particle mind you, and the help desk was extremely helpful in resolving my issues. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The fact that I had to use a terminal program (Particle CLI) to generate an Access Token to access Particle Variables and Functions from a custom script. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Go for it. You won't regret choosing Particle. Great value for a great price. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently I am monitoring the temperature of a a room and by creating a Particle Variable and push it to the Particle Cloud and then pull the latest value from my custom scripts when needed. The data is just there when I need it. ### 46. Easy to use, easy to deploy, even more easy to update, and safe. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** andy z. | developer and designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The best, for me, is the lack of "need to be there". I can update, upgrade, inspect, and interact with, no matter how far from me it is. No cables, no plug-in and -out. The libraries are great, the online programming website and the online console are easy to use and very helpful. It's definitely my preferred platform. **What do you dislike about Particle?** It would be nice to have a "customer" iPhone app for setting WiFi credentials. But since i install my devices and furniture myself at my customers, that rarely is a big problem. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** If you are looking for something really cool and professional, yet in an acceptable price range, Particle is your choice. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, I design intelligent furniture, comfortable working "chairs" (more like work-pods (for illustration purposes only, see www.azbi.ch), if you like) for screen-workers. They like the pod to remind them gently for taking a break, they like that the pod automatically deals with lighting, and of course the variable positions they can be in while working. The floor is a separate unit to the ring, and therefore they need to talk to each other somehow. Particle helps me to solve this in an easy and intuitive way. ### 47. one of the simplest ways to get into IoT dev **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I think that they make the hardware part of doing IoT dev less painful. I don't have a hardware background so programming firmware isn't something I have much experience with. I like that provisioning a new particle device is super easy and that writing firmware and getting it sync'd to your device is simple and can be done over wifi or cellular instead of having to connect with USB. **What do you dislike about Particle?** I think it would be nice if I could use the particle ecosystem with more kinds of IoT devices. Their software is geared toward Particle devices which isn't surprising, but it would be nice to use other kinds of hardware with their studio / device management tools. They used to support Rasbberry Pi development but I believe mostly discontinued support for that. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** I would start with Particle, especially if you're an IoT novice because it's a great way to learn. They have strong documentation and good examples to follow. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Particle was one of my first experiences in doing programming with IoT devices and it's one I keep coming back to because of how easy their software is to use. I own several particle devices that I've purchased over the last few years. ### 48. Awesome APIs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The Device OS API is awesome, also webhooks are super easy to implement and integrate. **What do you dislike about Particle?** I use BLE in my stuff and the BLE.scan() function shouldn't be blocking when it's provided with a callback function. It should just call the callback whenever it needs to. This has impacted my device's UX because buttons now have to be held for several seconds instead of just pressed momentarily. I'm not sure how feasible this is, but I would like to be able to have a more Javascript-esque way of doing things: for instance, I'd really like a 'setTimeout()' style function or a 'setInterval()' way to run certain functions periodically. I would also like more asynchronous functionality to be built in especially since the internet is such a huge part of why anyone uses Particle. I'm not sure how feasible this is either, but I would LOVE support for MicroPython. I've recently been working with XBees from Digi which are programmed in MicroPython and it's to C++ what a Cadillac is to a lawnmower. However, I'm not sure this could be done while retaining the performance of C++. Even if a tiny performance drop was a consequence, it would be nice to just have the option. Also, there are times when I'm not in an area with good cell service, and it would be much nicer to be able to flash sketches to my Boron locally from the web IDE. Just a thought. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Particle is built with developers in mind; it achieves a 'just works' level of functionality I haven't seen in any other IoT platform. I love just how many small things you can access quickly and easily through the Device OS API; previously I've just worked with Arduinos for IoT and so many things that you have to do with Arduino in a complex way are accessible with just a single built-in function call on Particle. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm connecting devices that used to only work locally to the internet via cellular. It's enabled my business to solve problems that we couldn't have previously. ### 49. Great backend functionality with Particle Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshay D. | SW triage Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The backend part of the Particle is a great feature. Being an Embedded engineer and someone who has more embedded software and hardware experience but not so much of cloud backend experience, i have found the particle cloud feature along with something as simple as IFTTT routines opens up multiple possibilities. great functionality for a reasonable price. its not flawless but Nothing which is not fixable but just gets a bit annoying sometimes. **What do you dislike about Particle?** I have found few problems with the online IDE. sometimes the code I am flashing won't work I would change literally nothing in the code just do a reset and reflash and the same code works fine. Nothing which is not fixable but just gets a bit annoying sometimes. great functionality for a reasonable price. The backend part of the Particle is simply a great feature. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** i have few projects where the particle device is isolated in one place and not always accessible but because of the easy flashing process, I can do over-the-air updates. great functionality for a reasonable price. The backend part of the Particle is a great feature. it's not flawless but Nothing which is not fixable but just gets a bit annoying sometimes. ### 50. Particle made it easy to code for a multitude of projects. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The simplicity of the board as well as the amount of ports made it easy to connect an ample amount of components to the board. I also liked how I was able to pair multiple boards together in order to transfer data between the devices. I was able to store all my data in the particle cloud from all devices. **What do you dislike about Particle?** Unpairing a device was difficult at times but pairing is very simple with the qr code. It took me a minute to figure out that if the particle was paired to another person or students account that they had to go and unpair the device so that I will be able to add it to my account. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** I used the particle argon and I was able to do almost everything I needed. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Particle has an excellent website with multiple examples of codes as well as projects to assist with whatever needs to be done. ## Particle Discussions - [We are about to scale up the number of devices in service. 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