M-commerce shopping using NFC

Abstract

In RFID based system, the details of the products are displayed on the LCD screen which is attached to the cart/trolley as the products are dropped in to the trolley and at the end of shopping the customers pays the bill shown on the LCD screen and conform their payment. The recommended system goals to switch heavy basket/cart with smartphones. Smartphones come with a prebuilt NFC reader/writer. These readers can read NFC tags. In the shopping centre, each product would have 1 NFC tag that holds whole information about that product. Customer can touch or wave their mobile on NFC tag and add/remove the product to/from the trolley on their mobile. There is no want to carry the trolley/physical cart. At the merchant's end, there would be a system for billing where customer would scan their smartphone and transfer the product particulars for billing. This way the system reduces the physical task by customer load effectively. The Range of NFC is 4–10 cm (compared to RFID is 1.5 cm), cost of NFC system is inexpensive than RFID, Avg processing time of NFC is 0.98(compared to RFID is 0.99). Both NFC and RFID having similar status scenario (Complete listings of the products, Automatic billing, Update inventory in the central system).