Smart Cart System

This idea was drawn from large queues at the shopping mall and the inconvenience it creates for the customer. These days shopping is becoming a time consuming, hectic activity, especially in cities. There are long lines in marts on weekends/events in big cities. In shopping marts, we can see a huge

Project Title

Smart Cart System

Project Area of Specialization

Software Engineering

Project Summary

This idea was drawn from large queues at the shopping mall and the inconvenience it creates for the customer. These days shopping is becoming a time consuming, hectic activity, especially in cities. There are long lines in marts on weekends/events in big cities. In shopping marts, we can see a huge rush, even more, when there are huge offers and discounts. Now a day’s people purchase a variety of items and put them in the trolley. After total purchasing one should approach the counter for billing purposes. By using a barcode reader the cashier prepares the bill which is a time-consuming process. This results in long queues at the billing counters. The ultimate goal is to develop a system consisting of a hardware device with software that can be used in supermarts to resolve the long queues at the billing counter using RFID Technology using in the supermarts with single and multiple cash counters. This project presents an idea to develop a system in shopping malls to overcome the above problem. To achieve this all products will have RFID tags. The mall should be equipped with RFID tags and all trolleys should be equipped with an RFID reader and LCD screen. When one scans any product, the item name and cost will be displayed on the LCD, thereby the cost gets added to the total bill. If we wish to remove the product from the trolley, you can take away the product and the amount of that specific product gets deducted from the total amount. After the payment of money, the Cart will be reset with the button given in the hardware. Hence the billing can be done in the trolley itself thereby saving a lot of time for the customers and leaving the billing area to only verify the product the customer Cart ID will be verified and the product will be counted before paying the bill to make it more secure. The RFID tags will be removed from storage to invoice so if any product leaves the store without being paid sets on alarms make stores theft-proof. Shopping will benefit from the proposed system for use in supermarkets, as it would make shopping easier.so to pay the bill, the customer does not need to stand in a queue. The system provides on the spot billing without any deals and live product price display so that customer can easily manage their budget. This smart shopping device will absolutely alter the way you shop. In addition, this smart trolley will be handy as it will reduce the number of workers and billing counters to save time for both the customer and the shopper.

Project Objectives

The aim and objective are to develop RFID based billing system for supermarkets in order to make billing process convenient and easy. Implementing an Automatic shopping cart using RFID technology that will be saving time of customers and improving purchasing. In this RFID card is utilized by the RFID reader in the shopping cart when the customer wants to add product the cost of the product will be shown and the total amount of bill will display on the LCD, when the customer wants to remove the product from the Cart, you need to take product out from the Cart, the amount of that product by scanning it again and gets deducted from total amount. After customer finished shopping, the customer will press send button on the hardware device and the bill will be generated in the database which could be taken by providing the Cart ID trolley number. The main purpose of this system is to make it effectively adaptable for helping the customers, time will be saved at the billing counters avoiding the long waiting queues. This project presents an evaluation on a technological idea that will be developed into a product for commercial purpose. As technology progressed, lives were greatly improved by the emergence of laborsaving and smart utilities, Our suggested system will make human life easier by doing all of these, use of IoT devices in daily routine works of life is an upcoming trend and resource to make human life relax and comfortable. Introduced system will make the customers of marts familiar to the marts layout and accurate price of the products which will make their shopping process reliable and efficient by providing the facility of decision making that which product they want to buy or not, showing the price of the product and total bill as well on the spot it will also facilitate them in billing process they don’t have to wait in a long queues bill will be generated automatically to the main system they just have to pay directly and leave , proffer system is just like two shots with one arrow it facilitate the customer and management both by providing the well organized and laborsaving infrastructure of their billing system.  From this customers can add/remove the product and can also get information identified with the expense of everything which is inside Cart and moreover the supreme expense of the thing about the product. This framework will save the time and work required for customers and workers.

Project Implementation Method

The logic behind all the project is to reduce long queues that cause headaches which could be possible using Arduino with RFID reader with Node MCU used in hardware in which product is scanned and stored in NODE MCU and then send the data to CBU which web form through XML/JSON and the bill generated at the billing counter must be verified and checked the cashier can check the product information at that time and for every customer there is unique bill ID which we will use for customer verification, once the customer pays he received card from cashier to exit which will be the authenticated card if un authenticated card scan against RFID reader od security pass the alarm will be on this is generally the idea of the project we know that there are and have many limitation and risk is this project but until you don’t catch the problem you could not found solutions and for that you have to dive in the sea and check and we have solve some problems and in future more people will extend it to next level. We chose this platform or language because we are already diving in an ocean and to dive  in another ocean of language would be most difficult for us and since everyone cannot have knowledge of everything you gather is in bit and pieces and which sums up knowledge and since we have knowledge that it could be built in lots of other language and since business man find ease of doing business places, from that we have chosen from all difficulties that ease of using known language is very useful but I know it is helpful but have constraints. The software model that we are using is the agile software development model in our project because since our project is hardware and software integrated project(Automatic smart Cart), since agile method uses incremental/iterative approach for designing a software, so we can break the product modelling into small modules or different increments which is easy to follow rather than making the whole project phase by phase and testing it after building the whole system, and in agile model every iteration has end and sprint is tested and we can get feedback at that time. We can manage small modules to make a whole system which include hardware, since we are clear about the requirements and what is the scope of our project.

Benefits of the Project

This project presents an evaluation on a technological idea that will be developed into a product for commercial purpose. As technology progressed, lives were greatly improved by the emergence of laborsaving and smart utilities, Our suggested system will make human life easier by doing all of these, use of IoT devices in daily routine works of life is an upcoming trend and resource to make human life relax and comfortable. Introduced system will make the customers of marts familiar to the marts layout and accurate price of the products which will make their shopping process reliable and efficient by providing the facility of decision making that which product they want to buy or not, showing the price of the product and total bill as well on the spot it will also facilitate them in billing process they don’t have to wait in a long queues bill will be generated automatically to the main system they just have to pay directly and leave , proffer system is just like two shots with one arrow it facilitate the customer and management both by providing the well organized and laborsaving infrastructure of their billing system. Life is moving so fast with the technology, proposed system will make life well organized and reliable. The main purpose of this system is to make it effectively adaptable for helping the customers time will be saved at the billing counters avoiding the long waiting queues.

Like now a days shopping is becoming a time consuming, hectic activity in cities. There are long lines in marts on weekends/events in big cities. Therefore, at different marts because of this, after shopping the customer reaches the billing counter for the bill but since using bar code for adding product and calculating the bill that is very time-consuming and that increases the waiting queues for Bill. A definitive objective is to build up a framework comprising of a hardware device with software that can be utilized in markets to determine the long lines at charging counter utilizing RFID Technology utilizing in the grocery stores with single and various money counters. Problem domain with historical background in Pakistan, there is no such system is being implemented yet, but research on this idea has been done. This is a new innovative idea that brings relief to the people by saving time. We are using RFID reader with Adriano and every product has an RFID card number used for product identification which is connected to the Centralized database which will calculate the bill of the customer bill with Cart ID give to the trolley when they reached the counter. The system performance is increased and speed but the weaknesses are about the hardware to get damaged and not work.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Technical Feasibility

Technical feasibility analysis involves identifying, with the hardware and software of the system, which software and hardware are required for the proposed system. Also, to what extent the system can be supported and whether or not the required support for the technologies that we are going to use is available. The proposed system is based on Embedded C, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, HTML, and MYSQL. Hardware components that are used in our project the RFID reader program, RFID tags, Arduino-kit, ESP8266, etc. Availability of the services that the RFID reader reads the tags and adds to the cart, which is also being modified in the database and the bill generated by the CBU and delivered to the customer,.

Operational Feasibility

Operational Feasibility is mainly about concerns such as how the program can be used when it is built and implemented.

Suggested system is fully design with the perspective of operational feasibility factors since the suggested system is highly recommended to have the time management factor in life. Due to which management support will be highly responsive. System is totally design with keeping in mind the users and customer’s issues with current business practices as users are not happy with the current billing system in marts as it is so much hectic and time consuming, proposed system is specially design to overcome this problem faced by customers so the proffer system will be strongly and smoothly effective for the customers in considerable way. Proposed system will really benefit the organization by reducing expense of having more workers and providing the much familiar management environment for their customers and them also.

Tools and languages:

1. HTML 5

For making skeleton of the project

1. CSS

For styling on both end Development

1. JavaScript

Used for adding functionalities.

1. Bootstrap

Used as CSS library for making quick styling and template.

1. Xampp server

Use to run a project on a local server.

1. Php my admin panel

Used for database of the project.

Software Implementation:

• Embedded C
• PHP, CSS, JavaScript, HTML
• MYSQL Platform:
  1. MySQL (PhpMyAdmin)(database)
  2. Sublime Text editor (software)

• Arduino IDE

Hardware Implementation:

Hardware used in this project.

• LCD
• RFID Scanner
• Node MCU
• Bill Button
• I2C Module
• Power supply
• Remove Button
• Arduino pro mini AT mega328

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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