The Smart Trolley for Super Mart

Date : May 2018 - Oct 2018

In this project, we’ve construct a smart trolley model for carrying different objects and grocery items in the shopping environment for the comfort and easiness of the customers. After analyzing the problems that are being faced by the customers while shopping, on the daily basis routine, we came to a conclusion and decided to bring some advancement in the shopping world. So, to get rid of those problems we are introducing a new concept of “Smart Trolley for Super Mart ”, which consists of an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) reader. All the items in the supermarket will contain an RFID tag so whenever a customer puts any item in the “Smart Trolley”, the code will be identified and the price of those items will be stored in memory. As we insert the items in the trolley, the cost will sums up to the total bill. If the item is taken away from the trolley, its bill will be automatically subtracted from the previous total bill. Thus the item name and its cost will be displayed on LCD, which could be termed as “Smart Billing”. The other main objective of this “Smart Trolley” is the ‘Automatically Following’, and for that purpose we are using IR sensor and monster motor shield. So the trolley will be able to follow the specific person via IR beacon. In today’s world, Supermarket plays a very important role for any city to be labelled as “Smart City”. It aids the resident of any specific area with the facility of being a one-stop destination for all the daily routine products and items. In a country like Pakistan, it’s of very great significance in employment’s point of view of any city. It’s growing day by day, so to stay in the business and compete with other competitors, shareholders are bringing new technology and better quality of different equipment, in use i.e. baskets, trolleys, barcode scanning LCD’s placed on different spots, etc. Among these mentioned equipment, baskets and trolleys are largely used in shopping environment.