An ATD is an independent hardware component installed on production lines to capture and verify serialization data, ensuring it reflects what is actually printed on products to prevent tampering.

ATDs ensure regulatory compliance, especially with traceability and serialization laws (like EU Tobacco Products Directive provisions), by making sure it is impossible to alter data and reflects true production events.

It provides a trusted source of truth between the factory and authorities, capturing and validating printed codes and feeding secure data into the traceability system for audit and reporting.

ATDs connect to Saga Cloud, providing secure storage, high availability, and seamless integration with PSQR’s traceability platform and reporting infrastructure.

The implementation most commonly takes place in regulated sectors requiring serialization integrity (e.g., tobacco, pharmaceuticals) to meet legal track-and-trace and anti-counterfeiting requirements.

ATDs help companies demonstrate to regulators that serialization and traceability data is accurate and tamper-free, reducing compliance risk and strengthening supply chain transparency.