DESIGN OF SMART PURCHASE CART FOR COMMERCIAL APPLICATION USING RASPBERRY PI AND RFID

Shopping in a big crowd is a challenge to find item required and also to finish it intime. Unlike earlier, shopping in modern days enabled the costumer to pick the item by self and to bring it to billing. This reduced the waiting time of the costumer to get the item. But the less or more the crowd, waiting time for the billing process grows with the number of items of the purchase. The development of smart purchase cart which is a system which allows faster checkout during retail shopping experience. The Smart Purchase cart inevitably will require very good and flexible design that will attract the client to use the product. The concept of purchase cart is a smaller form of the automated self-checkout system on a shopping purchase cart which consists of IR Obstacle sensors, Barcode Scanner, RFID reader module, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and tags. Purchase cart is expected to allow customers to scan their products themselves, make payment for items scanned and placed in the purchase cart before leaving the store. The Smart Purchase cart comes with all the traditional services including scanning an item to check for price and details. The mode of payment is cashless which is very effective now-a-days. In the coming days, this smart shopping purchase cart will be a more reliable form of check out process. This paper deals with the design of faster smart purchase cart using Raspberry Pi.