An Austrian SME offers a breakthrough IT solution for blood unit monitoring. The main advantage of the solution is the amount of blood units which need to be thrown away due to interruptions e.g. in the cold chain can be reduced drastically. As the willingness to donate blood is decreasing in society, the continuous and real-time monitoring of blood units saves not only money but, more importantly, lives. Currently blood units which are requested but not used during a surgery have to be discarded because the core temperature of the blood bag is not measured.