# New Particle hardware?

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/new-particle-hardware/39286>\
**Category:** BLE // NFC\
**Created:** [February 9, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/new-particle-hardware/39286 "2018-02-09T19:22:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 331

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![WoobaGooba](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/woobagooba/32/16369_2.png) [@WoobaGooba](https://community.particle.io/u/WoobaGooba)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/new-particle-hardware/39286/331 "2018-02-15T17:46:09Z")

</div>

Can you elaborate on how Particle is using CoAP? I’m particularly curious re: what you are using for payload encoding. CBOR would be a natural evolution for a more efficient JSON.

---

_[View the full topic](https://community.particle.io/t/new-particle-hardware/39286)._