An Enhanced Shopping Model for Improving Smartness in Markets using SABIS architecture

Ubiquitous Computing is considered to be as the new technology era which is exploring different ways to allow smart devices to function without need for user effort and awareness. Ubiquitous systems are designed to be available and accessible from anywhere. Ubiquitous Computing for shopping giving a new way of providing shopping standard and offers Smarter Environment where users can shop intelligently. Many systems are using the RFID technology for reducing the billing time during shopping. But the cost of RFID is of a greater consideration and it requires constant radio frequency waves to be emitted to read the product information which may not be suitable for markets in developing countries like India. The objective of this paper is based on providing a smart service to people in shopping malls using the SABIS - Smart Arduino Based Intelligent Shopping Architecture. The trolleys in the shopping malls are enabled with a device consisting of Arduino board which can identify the products by communicating with the racks which in turn consists of an arduino board which is programmed with the details of the product in the rack. The communication is established using a wired mechanism where the trolley and rack are connected using wires. The customer can pay the bill directly in the counter reducing the billing time where the bill is retrieved by generating an interrupt at the end of the shopping process. The digital display device displays product information along with the total cost of the products in the trolley. Thus this system provides an enhanced way for shopping to the customers in a reduced cost and efficient mechanism.