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Intelligent Shopping Trolley (IST) System by WSN to Support Hypermarket IoT Service

Authors:
You-Chiun Wang
Chang-Chen Yang

Keywords: customer behavior; indoor navigation; Internet of Things (IoT); shopping trolley; ZigBee

Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT) technology allows physical objects integrated with sensors to monitor and communicate with the outside world. The paper develops an Intelligent Shopping Trolley (IST) system to provide IoT service in a hypermarket. Each trolley is equipped with sensing modules to cooperatively monitor its customer's behavior. The sensing data is sent to a server through the ZigBee network to analyze the customer's preference. Then, the retailer can notify the customer of sales information about interesting products in real time. Also, a customer can query the trolley for product data such as where it is. Then, the system schedules an obstacle-free shortest path to guide that customer. The paper reports both system design and implementation experience. A prototype is also deployed in a real-life hypermarket to verify the feasibility of IST system.

Pages: 77 to 82

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: July 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-490-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 24, 2016 to July 28, 2016