Smart Cart: A Distributed Framework

Abstract

In retail stores, most of the people spend more time in billing queue than the time he spends choosing the items due to long queue in rush time. The average time that customers of any retail store have to spend in the billing queues has a direct influence on the quality analysis of services. Thus, it is important to think about different ways to reduce the waiting time in a queue in real time scenario. We propose a cart system that distributes the whole billing queue into smaller individual units so that no one has to wait for the billing process at point of sales (PoS) for specific items. This device uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to scan each product. A passive RFID sticker tag is attached with all the products. The sticker tag contains information including name and price of the product. The device includes a 13.56 MHz RFID reader/writer module that reads RFID stickers attached to the products. In this covid-19 alarmed situation, this distributed cart system also helps people to maintain social distance avoiding long queues.