Announcing @particle 's entry into single-board computers: Tachyon, a powerful 5G-connected SBC with an AI accelerator, live on @Kickstarter!.

This feature was made possible by a decade's worth of work on creating an over-the-air software update service that is reliable, efficient, and battle-tested. Huge props to the engineering team at Particle for getting this out the door!.

Or you can use it to update a co-processor, when you're using Particle primarily as a connectivity module and are running the logic of your prouduct on an attached STM32, RP2040, or (name your favorite MCU).

It's also great for distributing software updates over a local wireless network using something like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) or LoRa.

"Asset OTA" is Particle's version of that same capability. You can now use a Particle device to distribute a bundle of software updates out to other processors. This is great if you're managing a vehicle or a complex machine that has a lot of subcomponents.

Tesla does something very cool with their OTA software updates — they bundle together software updates to subcomponents, and the central processor of the car takes responsibility for distributing those software updates over-the-wire. As a result, Teslas are "software on wheels".

Particle has included OTA as a killer feature of our IoT platform since we launched in 2014. Since then, our users have pushed out about 13 million software updates. We've got the most battle-tested OTA system in IoT, except perhaps for Tesla.

OTA stands for “Over-the-Air”, and generally refers to the ability to remotely update the software on an embedded device over a wireless network. OTA is hard to pull off because any security or reliability problems lead to issues like this:

RT @EdgeImpulse: We're thrilled to announce official support for the @Particle Photon 2 on the Edge Impulse platform! .

P.S. do people read LinkedIn posts? should I be Twitter Blue "Long Tweeting" these? I am a social media n00b, someone help. cc @terronk.

Yesterday @particle announced 7 (!!!) new products and features, and now I'm going to write about each one of them. Starting with: the Photon 2!

RT @thecodenamev: Listening to @particle's #Spectra event, and just blown away with their entire framework and offerings. Like, to the poi….

Spectra is tomorrow. Come join us!

Join me and 2,000 of my closest friends to hear the latest from @particle at Spectra, our annual IoT conference, on June 21:

RT @particle: 📢 Exciting news! 🎉🌐 #Spectra is back and better than ever! 🚀 Join us for an immersive virtual conference on June 21st, exclus….

IoT is climate tech, climate tech is IoT. Join me and @Zwigby (CEO of @LosantHQ) in ~25 mins to talk about the intersection between IoT and ESG.

This week I published an interview with @ericmigi, founder of @Pebble and @onbeeper, on Atoms and Bits. Take a watch or listen: .

Props to our head of IT security @SecureOwl for producing amazing training content. Every year when it's SOC2 training time the whole company rushes to see what he put together.

Last week the media picked up that BMW is charging $18/mo for heated seats in some of its international markets. This is the *wrong* way to add subscriptions to a product. So what's the right way?

First video interview for Atoms & Bits: the insightful @sanjaydastoor, co-founder of @BoostedBoards and @SkipScooters. Thanks Sanjay for joining me and talking about hardware/software businesses through the eyes of an experienced founder.