Development Of User Friendly Shopping Trolley With Portable Barcode Scanner

Abstract

With the advancement of technology, the level of acceptance of people of all ages towards electronic gadgets is increasing steadily. Electronic gadgets such as barcode scanner, RFID reader and access card are gaining more usage in various kinds of industries. The same applies to shopping malls. Before, people did their shopping at grocery shops or mini markets. As the number of large scale supermarket increased over the years, people started to prefer the shopping mall. As a consequence, shopping mall technology have to be constantly updated to fulfill the needs of consumers. Thus, a Development of User Friendly Shopping Trolley with Portable Barcode Scanner is proposed by this project as an effort to introduce a new feature that will greatly help the consumers by easing their shopping experience and also can predicting their budget when shopping. A barcode scanner with LCD screen will be attached to the shopping trolley so that consumers can scan items they want to purchase into the shopping trolley. It does not only inform consumer of the total price of items as they shop, but also ensures that price of every item is available. The consumers will be able to scan the items themselves and the LCD display on the shopping trolley will keep updating the total. This system is built using Arduino as the programming language and also RFID reader as the system development model. This system is built for use with barcode scanner.