SATO is an Auto-ID Solutions company that tags ID to anything and everything to help business run smoothly. Through its solutions portfolio, SATO is supporting the ISBT standards to print and encode compliant blood components labels.

Additionally, SATO is supporting and promoting the PJM RFID technology for the management of the blood & plasma value chain worldwide. Unlike other types of RFID technologies, PJM RFID which is compliant with the publicly available international standard ISO 18000-3 Mode 2 and is entirely unaffected by liquids, making it ideal for the tracking of blood and blood products. PJM RFID provides the high speed, reliability of operation and 100% read accuracy required for blood tracking.​

SATO’s industry leading RFID tunnels, RFID retrofit components and Open Shelf for cold and freezer rooms provide reliable and 100% accurate tracking of blood supply chain and management of blood inventory.​

PJM technology allows whole blood, plasma, platelets and other blood products to be tracked as bulk shipments, or closely stacked in cool storage, without any reduction in performance.​