International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volume 118 No. 20 2018, 3783-3786

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SMART SHOPPING TROLLEY USING RFID

P.T. Sivagurunathan# ,P. Seema*, M. Shalini*, R. Sindhu*

#
Assistant Professor,*Student,
Electronics and Communication Engineering,
M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering Karur, India.
seemapitchai@gmail.com, shaliniselvi743@gmail.com,
sindhu0996@gmail.com

ABSTRACT- The various items are purchase in RFID and LCD, total price of the item will be displayed
shopping mall or markets with help of shopping trolley. in LCD and also brief about the product. In this system
This product acquirement is some difficult process. In will save time of customers and manpower required in
customer convenience they have to pull the trolley for mall. It is also used to reduce the employee work in the
each time to collecting items and simultaneously. After shopping mall.
purchasing, customer want to pay the bill for their
purchasing. In that time, they have to wait in a long queue II. THE EXISTING WORK
to get their products scanned using RFID reader with help At present, we are using the process in malls
of barcode Scanner and get their billed. To modify that with help of barcode scanner. Vendor scan the product
and customer has to purchase in smart way in shopping through the barcode scanner. This is to be a slow process
mall. Each and every product has to place a RFID and Customer has to wait for long queues. So, this is a
barcode to scan the product with RFID reader. The smart one of the reason for most of the people want to leave the
trolley will consist of a RFID reader, LCD display and mall for waiting a long queue to buy a few products. To
ZigBee transmitter. When customer if want to buy any avoid that, we want to buy more products recent years
product is insert in the trolley. It will scan and read the have been introduced new type of technologies. customer
product and display the cost and the name of the product has to put a product into smart shopping trolley. Each
in LCD. The total cost of all the purchased products will and every product has product id. The RFID reader can
be added to the final bill, in that final bill will be saved in read the product id. Which can have been useful for
the Arduino is will be act as a memory. These are all customers. All such solutions can be useful for customer.
performed in the transmitter side. In receiver side, it is Such solutions save the customer time and money etc….
wireless transmitting process. It is used to share the
product information and final bill amount of the items are
placed in the trolley will be transfer using a ZigBee
transmitter to the billing system. It is used to save the
customers time and also customer doesn’t wait a longtime
and long queue. A new concept has been introduced
which is the ‘SMART SHOPPING TROLLEY’. This
project is used to improve the security performance and
also the speed.

I. INTRODUCTION
Mall and market is a big corner for customer to
purchasing the daily requirement like branded food item,
snacks, cloth materials, electric and electronic devices Fig.2.1 Existing system
etc. Nowadays, a maximum numbers of shopping mall
are available large as well as small in the world. In III. THE PROPOSED WORK
holidays and weekend time we can see a huge rush at
A customer goes into a shopping center then she/he first
mall. The public was demand & spending more time in
take a trolley. Every last trolley is joined with a scanner
shopping mall. After purchasing a long time, the
tag per user and a RFID per user.
customers waste of unnecessary time at the billing
counter for billing the purchased item. Continuously
The framework work is the point at which the customer
improvement was compulsion in the common billing
buys a thing, the customer must be examining the thing
system to increase the quality of shopping experience to
first with help of standardized tag are available in each
the customers. To overcome these problems and to
item utilizing the RFID per user. At that point that
change and improve the existing system, we have
acquired thing can be set into the trolley. While the client
designed a SMART SHOPPING TROLLEY. This can be
is examining the RF tag of the item, a cost of the buying
done by simply attaching using RFID tags to the products
item is taken and spared in the framework's
and a RFID reader with a LCD display on the shopping
memory/Arduino.
trolley. In this system, customer will have to know the
price of each and every item that is scanned in with help

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• Information put away in framework's memory is IV. FLOW CHART

contrasted and the query table. In the event that matches
are discovered at that point cost, name of individual item
gets showed on the LCD. In the meantime Arduino sends
a similar data to PC for charging reason with the
assistance of RS232 convention.

Fig.3.1 Proposed system

• Here we have utilized signal for the RFID per user can
read the thing effectively. Assuming every single thing
will be checked means bell give a sound. The client can
without much of a stretch know the thing was perused. we
have likewise utilized IR sensor for checking cause. In
the event that benefactor put an item in a trolley and
around then there is obstacle for IR beams, at that point it
may realize intrusion in including of items trolley.
• Counting is specifically performed for security reason.
On the off chance that on the off chance that even as
meandering round the shopping center a man disposes of
the RFID tag and puts the item in trolley, at that point
checking the no of things empowers to get measurements Fig.4.1 Flowchart of the system
of articles obtained. Subsequently, tallying is performed
however there is no expansion of cost particular item in 4.1 Algorithm
receipt. This recommends the blast in wide assortment of
stock yet not increment in charge. i. Start the process
• If an unwanted item is expelled from trolley then it ii. Initialize the system
diminishes the scope of items notwithstanding bill. It is iii. Scan an item in RFID tags
utilized to subtract the aggregate cost to the expelled iv. Check the RFID tags
specific thing cost. v. If the tag is registered or scanned, RFID reader
• After conclusive touch of shopping, a mystery is can read the data related from memory
squeezed showing last charging of the considerable vi. Display the data and cost with help of LCD
number of items. Appropriately, the last data of all items vii. The item is added automatically the item cost
is transmitted to a PC with the assistance of serial report also add and produce the total cost
and the last charging is finished by VB programming on viii. If any item is removed, the total cost is
PC. subtracted by the particular removed item and
• There's a scanner tag gadget in our undertaking. it's again the process will be continuing
miles difficult to glue the RFID tag to a couple of items ix. Send the total amount in the billing system
like coconut, vegetables and so on. Subsequently in such x. Print the bill
cases regular filtering of scanner tag is additional xi. The process is end.
advanced than RFID strategy.

V. ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGES

5.1 Advantages
 It saves customers time.
 It also reduces the payoff given for workers.
 It is possible to rewrite the RFID tags.
 It doesn’t need line of sight.

5.2 Disadvantages
 Easy to damage.

Fig.3.2 Proposed system kit

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