RFID-Driven Smart Shopping Trolley

Shopping is now an integral part of our lives, mainly in cities, as hypermarkets and grocery stores have become a daily haunt for basic supplies. Advanced technology has greatly benefitted the retail industry by offering small and medium-scale enterprises the practicality to adopt smart trolley technology. It brings an increasingly efficient, user-centric, and streamlined shopping experience through the use of sophisticated technologies that address shortcomings and achieve greater overall operational efficiency. The smart cart trolley does scanning the products and enables real-time data updates of the products in the supermarket. The main advantage of the trolley is that it can transfer the information of products and even display the time that they were purchased. The details are displayed on the Thingsboard, which is an open-source IOT platform. Thus, it easily facilitates shopping, enjoys personalized assistance, and the comfort of smart carts besides the long queuing time. The product information is displayed on the LCD screen; this feature attracts the user. It is a high-value asset with applications of technology products such as RFID and IoT. Smart cart trolleys were introduced as an inventory control of real-time products. The initiative was mostly to remove the long queues and provide information to customers.