# Electron Data Usage Investigation

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/electron-data-usage-investigation/21038>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/electron-data-usage-investigation/21038 "2016-03-14T03:28:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![RWB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/rwb/32/22599_2.png) [@RWB](https://community.particle.io/u/RWB)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/electron-data-usage-investigation/21038/35 "2018-03-09T22:00:48Z")

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This may help you:

> [@Electron Data Usage Monitor with Photon](https://community.particle.io/t/electron-data-usage-monitor-with-photon/21947):
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> This was just a simple little program I wrote to test out the new cellular data usage APIs in 0.5.0. There is a bit of code you install on the Electron with whatever else you’re testing, a program you install on a Photon, and you connect the serial ports together and voila! Periodically the Electron sends this data over a dedicated serial port (1, 4, or 5, typically) to the Photon which then does something with it. In this example, it just publishes it to the cloud, but you could do some analysi…

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