Automated Shopping Trolley Using Raspberry Pi B+ Model

Abstract

Shopping center is where individuals get their everyday necessities. There has been a rising
interest for speedy and simple installment of bills in shopping centers. Acquiring and
shopping at uber shopping centers is ending up day by day movement in different metrourban communities. There is enormous surge at these shopping centers on siestas and ends of
the week. The surge is considerably more when there are exceptional offers and limits
arrived. Individuals buy distinctive things and place them in trolley. In the wake of gathering
every one of the items in trolley, one needs to go to charging counter for charging, tallying
and further installment process for obtaining those items. To beat these issues, we have
planned a shrewd trolley. As indicated by the writing study, existing shopping framework
causes an immense surge at super shopping centers. In shopping center for obtaining
assortment of things it requires trolley. Every time customer has to pull the trolley from rack
to rack for collecting items and at the same time customer has to do calculation of those
items and manually have to compare the total price with their budget. This process becomes
hectic to the one who is in rush[4]. After this, customer has to wait in queue for billing at
counter processed by the staff member present at that counter where firstly, the scanning of
all the products in trolley needs to be done then final billing and payment has been occurred.
Here, if the customer wants to remove any item from final bill then manually removal of that
item has been done and then again final billing done by the staff member present at that
counter. The information displayed on LCD includes the list of selected product, their prizes,
and total prize. The keypad is introduced to confirmation of selected list as well as removal of
products in such cases. If customer wants to remove any product from the list of scanned
items, then by selecting that particular item customer can easily remove them. After the
confirmation of selected items the final bill is being sent to the server of the mall as well as
on customer’s mobile number. Then the payment process is done at cashiers’ counter. Thus,
automated shopping trolley help to save time required for scanning and counting process and
avoids rush at counter