Smart Trolley with Automatic Billing System using Arudino

Abstract

Nowadays, shopping malls (supermarkets) are almost developed with much technological advancement. A shopping mall is mall where we get different items like glass items, toys, kitchen sets ,groceries, decorative items and so many. Lots of people like to shop because of attractions like discounts, home delivery and so on. People have to wait in long queues especially on weekends and customer has to patiently wait for his turn. This is a time-wasting process due to the busy schedule of people and feels bored and are not happy by the services provided in billing counter. To avoid these problems we have introduced an effective and highly advance system which also helps us during COVID-19 period: an effective way for social distancing. In order to tackle this unique problem for customers especially in billing the system proposed is Smart trolley as when the items are put it gets scanned and purchased item and its amount displayed parallel on LCD automatically. It uses RFID technology which can scan huge no items and saves valuable time of customers as well as shopping mall.

Smart Shopping Trolley With Automated Billing

“…Once the tag is read by the reader, it transmits the data to the microcontroller which is displayed in the LCD [9]. The microcontroller then sends the information to ESP8266 which is a Wi-Fi module used to send information to other devices that is connected through Internet The other device in this instance is an application that displays the total cost of the product when it is added to the cart [10][11]. On the LCD built within the cart as well as on the app, the item added to the cart and its price will be shown.…”

Internet of things and radio frequency identification based embedded system to reduce shopping time in supermarkets

“…On the one hand, some researches use IoT technology, accessing them through the cloud [2], [5], [6], [8], [15], [16], [18], [19], [21]- [23]. On the other hand, other researchers chose to use transmitter modules such as global systems for mobile communications (GSM) [17], network modules using XBee/ZigBee communication protocol [7]- [9], [20], and nRF24 model wireless transceivers [1], [24]. These communication tools are very limited, since they are based on point-to-point communication limiting the transmitter to a single receiver or in this case to a single box in the facility, therefore it is convenient to use the IoT as a wireless data transfer tool.…”

Empowering Elderly Individuals through the Intelligent Shopping Trolley

“…The implementation of smart shopping trolleys for elderly care holds several key advancements and benefits. Other recent reports in [6], [7] describe a smart trolley system for mega malls that uses a microcontroller. It allows customers to automatically scan products with a barcode scanner and see running totals on an LCD display, without needing to queue for checkout.…”