Spain’s NextPoint Solutions has just released EPC Hotspot, its new software that shows the best location to affix RFID tags on a given product, as well as defines the highest performance configuration for RFID readers.

EPC Hotspot works by creating color-coded 3D virtual representations of pallets to determine the optimum tagging area on the pallet for read reliability. The software is designed to replace the old procedure of pilots and tests, which is based on trial-and-error measurements that do not take into account all the parameters for placing the tags, product material and configuration of readers, according to Nextpoint.

EPC Hotspot works with most Gen2 readers and Gen2 tags in the market, including brands such as Alien, Intermec, Motorola, Impinj, Omron, ThingMagic, Caen or RF Code.