IoT Based Efficient Smart Shopping Cart Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

In the age of technology, the term IoT (Internet of things) rapidly used in the past few years, forming a smart environment by connecting several objects having communication capabilities over the internet. IoT has large implementations in different fields of everyday life, but here we contemplating shopping malls, that are pondering as a rushed place after shopping. People have to wait at billing counters in long queues that make the shopping process hectic. Wastage of time and resources is also another problem. In the proposed work, the smart shopping cart system will provide ease to customers in shopping and billing, using radio frequency identification (RFID). The shopping mall will have a mobile application containing all the products of the shopping mall, the customer will generate the required item list by using a smartphone. The RFID tag placed on all products when the customer picks any product and placed it into a smart trolley RFID reader that is installed on a smart cart will fetch all the information (Price, MFG Date, Expiry Date) about that product from RFID tag. The customer will continue adding products in the trolley and the bill will be displayed on an LCD screen located on the smart trolley. When customers will be done shopping, will pay bills through E valet or on the billing counter.