Particle | X-ON
Particle Industries, Inc. provides a suite of hardware and software tools to help prototype, scale, and manage Internet of things products. It offers Photon, a Wi-Fi development kit for creating connected projects and products for the Internet of things; Electron, a development kit for creating cellular-connected electronics projects and products; Spark Core, a Wi-Fi development kit; Grove Starter Kit for Photon, a plug-and-play kit for the Photon; Internet button; antennas; USB; and shields and accessories. The company also provides software tools to develop firmware libraries, IDEs, and mobile applications. It offers Tinker, a mobile application for remote control and monitoring; Particle Build, a development environment available through any modern Web browser to write code in browser, store it online, and flash code over-the-air to Particle boards anywhere in the world; and a cloud platform that provides a secure gateway to interact with connected hardware through modern APIs and develop intelligent Web services. The company sells its products and T-shirts online. Particle Industries, Inc. was formerly known as Spark Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Particle Industries, Inc. in May 2015. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota with additional offices in San Francisco, California; and Shenzhen, China.