Innovative shopping cart for smart cities

An unconventional novel product which is accepted by the society is the one that brings contentment, satisfaction with benefits and coherence in day to day life of a common man. Innovative shopping cart is a system developed to abet a person in everyday shopping by involving some automation in customarily practiced process. This will help the person in everyday shopping by minimizing the time required, while purchasing the product with reasonable price and best offers. The main objective is to provide a robust technology with low-cost, high efficiency and easily adaptable system for making the process of shopping effortless. The system consists of 4 key modules (i) Product Detection (PD) (ii) Product Recommendation (PR) (iii) Budget Setting (BS) and (iv) Automatic Billing (AB). PD is used to detect the product placed in shopping cart using RFID technology, meanwhile PR facilitates providing relevant product information and ongoing offers. BS helps to set the budget if purchase cost reaches the budget value a buzzer buzzes. AB generates the bill as the cart reaches the billing counter server through RF communication. These 4 modules are integrated into an embedded system and are tested to satisfy the functionality. The main aim of this project is to provide automatic billing to avoid queue in malls and super markets.