SSAS: RFID-BASED Smart Shopping Automation System

Shopping malls are the place where people get their basic daily requirements such as food items, clothing, fashion accessories, electrical appliances and so on. Nowadays we can find shopping malls every few meters in any developed or developing cities around the globe. Sometimes customers face the problem of having inadequate information about the products and have to lose their valuable time at the billing counters waiting for their turn to come. Constant enhancement is required in the traditional billing system to advance the quality of shopping experience for the customers. To overcome these difficulties and to advance the present existing system, we are putting up our approach on an RFID based Smart Shopping Automation System (SSAS) including automated bill calculator, this approach is carried by attaching RFID tags to the products or items and an RFID reader with a touch panel display at the EXIT gate along with some other important components. With this approach of shopping system, customers will have complete information about the price of every product that is scanned in by the reader, and the total price of the items at the end. SSAS will save the customer's time and labor required in malls and costs related to the products. Thus, this paper presents a preliminary development of the SSAS that can be integrated into the malls with smarts facilities to make shopping an automated experience.