RFID BASED SMART TROLLEY FOR REDUCING THE BILLING TIME

Abstract

RFID technology has received a lot of attention in the retail environment in the past few years. Shopping
in big malls has become a common activity on a daily basis in various cities. Thus the requirement of a socially
acceptable technology is much needed for comfort and convenience in daily life. In shopping malls the customer often
has to purchase the products and put them in the trolley; along with this the customers have to simultaneously
compare the total cost of the products with the budget in their pocket. After completing the purchase the customers
have to wait in long queues for billing of the products. This consumes a lot of a time. In this paper we are discussing
about a product ' The RFID based Smart Trolley for reduced billing time using Zigbee ' that would help to ease the
entire budget calculation and the billing process. The main objective of this project is to develop a technology to
improve the speed of purchase and that is user friendly and cost effective. This mainly consists of three main
components namely: RFID reader module, RFID tags and Zigbee. The smart trolley has LCD display that displays the
number of products in the trolley and the total amount of the products. Each trolley has a unique ID and it
communicates with the billing counter via zigbee to automatically bill the products in the trolley.