Cellular · Particle
Cellular MCU + cloud, integrated.
Particle ships cellular hardware (Argon, Boron) and the cloud platform together. Beacons plugs Particle's cellular layer in alongside everyone else so Particle devices on cellular become full T5 peers; on Wi-Fi they fall back to the T4 brokered model.
What it gets you.
- Hybrid T4 (Wi-Fi brokered) / T5 (cellular direct) per device
- Tight hardware integration (Argon, Boron, Tracker)
- Same Beacons fleet, same audit trail
- Particle SDK + beacons-sdk co-exist on-device
Provider profile
Particle
- Status
- Phase 4
- Footprint
- 100+ countries via Particle carrier partnerships
- Billing
- Particle wholesale + per-SIM Beacons platform fee
How it slots in
A CellularProvider implementation.
For Particle Tracker fleets, this is the simplest path to add identity-rooted mesh networking without changing the device firmware story.
Plugged into the same CellularProvider trait every other provider implements — Telnyx, Twilio, Soracom, Hologram, 1NCE, Particle. The fleet operator picks one or more providers per fleet, and Beacons routes ordering, activation, and usage queries to the right one. See cellular overview.