Smart Trolley for Smart Shopping with an Advance Billing System

Abstract: In the current scenario, people are more attracted to buy groceries from Supermarket/Hypermarket. In such a case, finding the essential need of any customer in supermarket consumes more time and after all findings the customer need to wait in the billing queue to complete billing process of the selected product. Currently, due to the covid-19 pandemic, the customers are strictly instructed to maintain social distance but practically it is not possible especially in the billing process. To overcome this significant challenge, this research work proposes a smart trolley based on Internet of Things [IoT] with an advanced billing system that makes shopping easier and secured and also avoids standing in long queue. The proposed system consists of a smart trolley attached with LCD display, barcode scanner and a raspberry-pi. This exploratory model is intended to completely eradicate the tedious shopping interaction and administration-related issues. The proposed framework can be undoubtedly implemented at a business scale under the genuine situation.

Keywords: Raspberry-pi, LCD, Barcode