Futuristic Intelligent Cart for Malls

Abstract

There is a huge change in technology, so the rate of people of all ages attracted towards electronic gadgets is increasing. In a different type of industries the electronic devices like a smart card reader, barcode and RFID scanner having more usage. This type of gadgets also required in supermarkets. In the existing, in the mall, every person takes product put into trolley. After the shopping is done that person have to stand in the queue for billing. In the billing process a sell person scan barcode of each and every product and gives final bill. This process is very time consuming and it becomes worst on holidays, special offers or weekends. The developed system consists of 4 key components/modules (a) Server Communication component (SCC) (b) User Interface and display component (UIDC), (c) Automatic billing component (ABC),(d)Navigation Component(NC) .SCC establishes and maintains the connection of the shopping cart with the main server. UIDC provides the user interface and ABC handles the billing in association with the SCC.NC used for navigation. These 4 modules are integrated into an embedded system and are tested to satisfy the functionality. The prototype is developed for commercial deployment.