SMART SHOPPING CART

Project Title

SMART SHOPPING CART

Project Area of Specialization Electrical/Electronic EngineeringProject Summary Project Summary: 

In super markets and Hyper markets, shopping trolley are a must. Our project, the RFID smart trolley we have an RFID reader which detects the prices on the products when it is swiped in front of the RFID reader. This information is sent to the counter where the bill for the whole items to be purchased is calculated and added up. In this way when the shopping is done and the customer reaches the counter, the total bill is generated.

Project Objectives AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

Aims:

The basic aim of our project is to come up with a viable and working concept of a supermarket trollies that can be used by the customer. The other aim is to learn the programing language for the use of our trolley which is using the Raspberry PI for the detection of product price via RFID card reader and also the built in WI FI conveys the information to the laptop of the cash counter. Lastly, we have to get better information making this trolley by the wiring of the electronics and the interfacing of the software with the hardware.

Objectives:

 Following are the objectives we intend to achieve: -

1. To develop a Smart trolley system which can easily be used by users to shop for their specific items and to know how much they have shopped by finding out the price of the shopped products.
2. To install the RFID reader mechanism for the best possible output and having a faultless system in reading the RFID cards.
3. To know the positive feedback in the market about the commercial viability of the project. To discuss with various vendors and entrepreneurs in this regard.
4. The durability of the materials used should be very stable and not failure prone. However, the materials if damaged or broken must be easily replicable.
5. To acquire practical experience in the field of fabrication and programming and also to have knowledge of the materials used and nature of materials used.

Project Implementation Method Project Implementation: 

Our project the smart trolley is an up gradation of the conventional supermarket trollies which has a microprocessor which is the Raspberry PI. The purpose of this microprocessor is to take information of the product price through the RFID reader card reader and convey the information to the cash counter to generate the total bill of the items purchased by the customer. It also takes the information from the Arduino which is connected with the load cell to take the weight of the trolley as the weight increases by the amassing of the products. It then displays the prices and types of products on the LCD fixed on the trolley and also on the cash counter for the generation of the bill.

Benefits of the Project  Benefits of the Project:

1. This system helps in achieving a faster billing system.
2. The innovation payment method avoid the long waiting time. 
3. Helps the buyer to know the bill details in advance so that he can plan an affordable purchase. 
4.  Intimate the customers about the current offers by showing pop-up in the trolley screen.
5. Helps in business promotions for the supermarkets by gaining more customers providing quick service. 
6. Easy to use and does not need any special training.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable Technical Details of Final Deliverable: 

1. Interfacing the  arduino with raspberry pi 
2. Interface the load cell with arduino.
3. Also interface RFID or Buck convertor.

 After the completion and testing of our project we know that we have developed a product which has achieved its required goals. The best part of it was that the whole project was completed in an economical way and coasted less then we presumed.

Also made it gesture control trolley.

The tests on the system were carried out and five different items were pasted with the tags. All the items when swapped showed the Prices as well as the item names on the LCD of the trolley and also on the sale counter which was a laptop used by us and the bill was added as soon as the item increased but if the items were put inside the trolley without swapping then the alar bleep would sounded.But new innovation to gesture control trolley.

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry OthersOther Industries IT , Transportation , Security Core Technology RoboticsOther Technologies Internet of Things (IoT), 3D/4D Printing, OthersSustainable Development Goals Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	18800
Buck Convertor 12V into 5 V	Equipment	1	2200	2200
Arduino	Equipment	1	760	760
Load Cell	Equipment	1	1540	1540
20 x 4 LCD Screen	Equipment	1	800	800
12Volt 7Amperes SLA Battery	Equipment	1	1650	1650
Shopping Trolley	Equipment	1	8500	8500
RFID Reader	Equipment	1	1200	1200
Button,Buzzer	Equipment	1	250	250
Wires	Equipment	1	300	300
Charts	Miscellaneous	2	300	600
Other	Miscellaneous	2	500	1000