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The Flare is being carried by the North West Company’s Northern Stores and discussions are taking place with electronics retailers such as Best Buy and Visions Electronics, and in the future he hopes to have presence in the cellphone retail chains as well. Tessier said he’s “getting lots of traction with truckers,” fishing guides and boating enthusiasts are also buying it. The app looks like any texting app and it, too, is as rugged as the Field Tracker. While the Field Tracker required some amount of technical savvy, the Flare was designed for ease of use. “I’ve heard of other companies who had been operating in very low activity who are now picking up like we are.” “I’m calling it our renaissance year,” he said. In the last few weeks, Solara has sold “hundreds and hundreds” of the Flare device and Tessier is optimistic about the coming year. “The Flare can handle both.”Īfter getting his staff back on the job with the CEWS - many were temporarily laid off - Solara has now relaunched the Flare as well as developing a remote data collection business in conjunction with a company called eMission LLC out of Alexandria, Va., that has connections with all sorts of international organizations such as UNESCO with potential remote data collection projects. “We surveyed our customers and the two things that most worried them was losing cellphone connection and charging the smartphone batteries,” Tessier said.

Flare is proving popular with truckers and boaters who often find themselves out of range of cellular phone service. It is half the cost of the Field Tracker - $499 versus $1,199 - and includes a large battery that can recharge a smartphone.

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Last March, just before the pandemic forced a worldwide shutdown, Solara launched a new product called Flare, a small unit that connects by Bluetooth to smartphones allowing them to function as a satellite phone when they are out of cell tower range. The small device uses Bluetooth to turn an ordinary smartphone into a satellite phone.īut because the device is durable, it doesn’t lend itself to repeat sales. Solara’s Tom Tessier demonstrates the Flare in Winnipeg Wednesday. The company makes a rugged satellite phone unit, called the Field Tracker, that is virtually indestructible with an international customer base including defence units in countries as far away as New Zealand and Nigeria and Italy. Tom Tessier, a former satellite engineer at Magellan who founded the company 15 years ago, has high praise for the federal government’s Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program, crediting it with making it possible for him to keep his 10-person staff on the job. This article was published (567 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.Īs with many small businesses when the pandemic hit, sales fell to the ground at the Winnipeg satellite communications hardware company, Solara Remote Data Delivery.

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