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Smart Shopping Cart for Automated Billing Purpose using Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors:
Udita Gangwal
Sanchita Roy
Jyotsna Bapat

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks; broad area WSN; Smart Shopping Cart; Load cell; Image comparison algorithm

Abstract:
With the increasing employment of broad area Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in the field of consumer applications, it becomes imperative to address the concerns raised by its application, such as reliability, energy consumption and cost-effectiveness. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a reliable, fair and cost efficient Smart Shopping Cart using Wireless Sensor Networks. Such a system is suitable for use in places such as supermarkets, where it can help in reducing man power and in creating a better shopping experience for its customers. Instead of making the customers wait in a long queue for checking-out their shopped items, the system helps in automating the billing process. Along with this ability, the system design also ensures detection of cases of deception invoked by dishonest customers, which makes the smart system fair and attractive to both the buyers and sellers. The system design along with the experimental setup are presented. The results are encouraging and with the use of repeaters at appropriate locations inside the supermarkets, our approach illustrates itself to be conceivable for use outside the laboratory, in real world deployment.

Pages: 168 to 172

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: August 25, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-296-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from August 25, 2013 to August 31, 2013