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Particle

Score9 out of 10

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What is Particle?

Particle, from Particle Industries in San Francisco, is presented as a developer-trusted IoT platform to gain insights into operations, accelerate productivity, and build new revenue streams. The platform also supports IoT device management, enabling users to monitor IoT products with end-to-end visibility in order to provide oversight and control.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Particle has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • IoT Device Management

    Software for provisioning configuring, troubleshooting and managing IoT devices and gateways remotely.

    Category average: 8.5

  • IoT Data Management

    Support for ingesting edge data and storing it to enterprise platforms, providing data accessibility, and managing data flows.

    Category average: 8.4

  • IoT Analytics

    Rich analytics to transform large quantities of sensor data into actionable insights.

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • IoT Integration

    Software integration and APIs to support business processes and applications.

    Category average: 8

  • Device Security

    Security to prevent connected devices from being hacked or compromised.

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about Particle.
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Efficient management of my company's hardware

Incentivized
Yolanda ThorntonView profile
Information Technology System Administrator in Research & Development at Tesco (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Particle is simple to use and accessible to any user.
  • The servers housed in the data center allow us to respond to any problem
  • Through the interface the data is analyzed in a very simple way.
  • Ideal interface for the exploitation of our devices, computers and mobile phones.
  • The interface for iOTs allows us to interact with the system in a few steps.
  • It allows, among other things, the display of information calculated from the data collected from different iOTs, in an understandable way.

Cons

  • Data leakage outside our company.
  • Storage is done in the cloud.
  • Wifi, microwave, remote controlled objects ... can interrupt iOT operation.

Return on Investment

  • It ensures very good results, with recovery of the investment in a short time.

Other Software Used

Blue Prism Cloud, Cleo Integration Cloud, Acumatica

Best tool/product for Beginners/Learners

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were exploring creating one IoT product based on the Particle Photon Module. This is one of the best WiFi Modules available in the Market for beginners. It's easy to use and learn the product. It also comes along with the IoT Cloud where you can see and get analytics of different variables and parameters of running MCU.

Pros

  • Easy to use IDE and Web Editor.
  • Can Edit code from anywhere.
  • Get Cloud Analytics and values of parameters.

Cons

  • For Advanced programs, a bit complicated to programme.
  • Pin Limitations (Photon DevKit).
  • Pricing is high compared to others.

Most Important Features

  • Web Editor.
  • Can be connected from everywhere.
  • Battery Powered Compact Design.

Return on Investment

  • Sometimes Cloud Analytics fails due to less network.
  • Can't check properly in Cloud Editor it's connected to network or not.
  • It uses more power in WiFi Module.

Other Software Used

AWS IoT Core, Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, WebNMS IoT Platform