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INTELLIGENT TROLLEY SYNOPSIS Bachelor of Engineering In Electronics and Communication Engineering Proposed By Mohit Yadav Sagar Swain Saksham Aggarwal Siddharth Yadav Tanushree Kansal A50105111040

1 INTELLIGENT TROLLEY SYNOPSIS Bachelor of Engineering In Electronics and Communication Engineering Proposed By Mohit Yadav Sagar Swain Saksham Aggarwal Siddharth Yadav Tanushree Kansal A A A A A Under the guidance of Mr Neeraj Gupta Mrs Shruti Karkra Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering Amity School of Engineering & Technology Amity University Haryana

2 Table of Contents TABLE OF FIGURES... 1 ABSTRACT... 2 INTRODUCTION... 3 MOTIVATION... 4 OBJECTIVE... 5 SCOPE... 6 LITERATURE REVIEW... 7 TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY... 8 TOOLS:... 8 TECHNOLOGY:... 8 BLOCK DIAGRAM FLOW CHART APPLICATIONS REFERENCES Table of Figures FIGURE 1: VISUAL ABSTRACT... 2 FIGURE 2: BLOCK DIAGRAM FIGURE 3: SYSTEM FLOW CHART FIGURE 4: TABLE SHOWING RETAIL STORES IN INDIA Page 1

3 ABSTRACT An innovative product with societal acceptance is the one that aids the comfort, convenience and efficiency in everyday life. Purchasing and shopping at big stores is becoming daily activity in almost all cities nowadays. We can see big rush at these stores on holidays and weekends. People use trolleys to carry purchases around. After completion of purchases, one needs to go to billing counter for payments. At billing counter the cashier prepare the bill using bar code reader which is very time consuming process and results in long queue at billing counter. In this project, we develop a product Intelligent Trolley to assist a person in everyday shopping, in terms of reduced time spent while purchasing. The system will provide a technology oriented, programmable, low-cost, easily scalable, and rugged system for assisting shopping in person using RFID module and RASPBERRY PI module. In this system we are using RFID tags instead of barcodes. This RFID tags on the products will be read by RFID reader on the trolley, thus an installed Screen will display the product price, number of products and the total cost of the purchases. The purchase details will be sent to the billing counter as soon as the customer hits the button to end shopping using a Bluetooth Transceiver. The billing counter realises the identity of the cart too, thereby eliminating the tedious job calculating the total cost of the purchases. The details of the purchases of each cart with due date and time can be accessed from anywhere over the internet. The existing system is very slow, has a number of limitations (line of sight requirement), and requires a lot of man-power. Though the system is computerized to a particular extent, it has tons of modifications left to do. Figure 1: Visual Abstract Page 2

4 INTRODUCTION In the modern world, every supermarket and hypermarkets employ shopping baskets and shopping trolleys in order to aid customers to select and store the products which they intend to purchase. The customers have to drop every product which they wish to purchase into the shopping cart and then proceed to checkout at the billing counter. The billing process is quite tedious and highly time consuming and has created the need for shops to employ more and more human resource in the billing section, and yet waiting time remains considerably high. In our project, we seem it fit, to propose an Intelligent Trolley which aims to reduce, and possibly eliminate the total waiting time of customers, lower the total manpower requirement and expenses for markets and increase efficiency overall. In a world where technology is replacing the ways we pursue everyday activity, the future of the retail industry also lies in more and more automated devices. This shopping cart will change the way people shop as radically as ATM s changed banking. The trolley will reduce and eliminate time taken in billing counter in supermarkets thus allowing users to self-checkout and increase productivity. Page 3

5 MOTIVATION In survey we found that most of the people prefer to make purchases from any retail shop instead of waiting in long queues to buy a few products in a supermarket. People are supposed to stand in a long queue for billing and payment. While trying to come up with a solution to the previously identified problem, recent years have seen the appearance of several technological solutions for hypermarket assistance. All such solutions share the same objectives: save consumer s time and money, help these markets to win loyal clients. Another problem faced by the management is the maintenance of the transaction records and the absence of a live inventory leading to problems like, products being out of stock, thus leading to the loss of customers. We therefore, aimed at solving the above problem and also to make things easier not only for the customers but also for the management of the store be it local or nationwide. Page 4

6 OBJECTIVE The objectives of the system are- To create a better shopping experience for the customers by saving their time. To minimize the man-power required at the shopping mall. To handle the cases of deception. To make the inventory more easily accessible and manageable. To easily keep a check on the transactions of the day by store managers. Ease of database maintenance. To make the billing details accessible by the managers from anywhere around the world. This system is favourable at three ends- Wholesaler/Headquarter Retailer Consumer The live inventory allows the headquarters to keep track of the all the purchases each day at all times for inventory tracking as well as future uses. Instant billing will reduce man power required by each store at the payment counter, thus using it for other purposes. Total cost display will let the consumer know if they have exceeded their limit of purchase and also save their time at the billing counter. Page 5

7 SCOPE This project has a large scope as it has the following features which help in making it easy to use, understand and modify: It is implemented using simplest and open source microcontroller (Arduino) available today It is pre-programmed and is re-programmable It has absolutely no instruction to be followed by the consumer thus easy to use, by any level of expertise. Can be equipped by many other features when manufacturing commercially Can be used to enhance security and prevent shoplifting Page 6

8 LITERATURE REVIEW Shopping in the present day usually involves waiting in line to get your items scanned for checkout. This can result in a great deal of wasted time for customers. Furthermore, the technology currently used in checkouts barcodes - is from another era, developed in the 1970s. Today barcodes are found on almost every item. Barcodes are a universal technology in that they are the norm for retail products; stores that own a barcode reader can process barcodes and imprint it on the products. The most important factor that is involved in barcode scanning is that the product should be in the Line of Sight (LOS) of the reader in order to get the barcode imprinted on the product scanned. In 2009, the University of Arkansas Information Technology Research Institute completed a study to determine the business value of RFID item-level tagging for day-to-day operations at a major luxury retailer. The chain s management evaluated the use of RFID tags in the denim category. The results demonstrated that overall inventory accuracy improved by more than 27 percent, under stocks decreased by 21 percent, and overstocks decreased by 6 percent. The study also compared how long it took to count items using RFID vs. a barcode reader. With RFID, scanning 10,000 items took two hours; scanning with a barcode reader took 53 hours. This translated into an average of 4,767 counted items per hour using RFID, and 209 items per hour using a barcode system a 96 percent reduction in cycle-counting time. Ankit Anil Agarwal, Saurabh Kumar Sultania, Gourav Jaiswal, Prateek Jain (2011) in their paper RFID Based Automatic Shopping Cart described the implementation of a system to allow the consumer a new way of shopping. When arriving at the supermarket, the consumer heads towards a shopping cart that has a technological system on its handle-bar which consists of a monitor, a client card automatic reader, a positioning transmitter and a product reader. Nevertheless, all these technologies become transparent to the consumer because only monitor interaction will occur. Bill McBeath in April 2013 said, to survive in 2013 and beyond, retailers need to make it easy for consumers to buy anywhere, receive anywhere, and return anywhere. The key to this cross-channel order promising is the ability, in real time, to locate and allocate available inventory from any location, whether in the store, in DCs, in transit, or on order from the manufacturer. This requires having a very accurate, real-time, item-level picture of inventory at all these sources. RFID has proven to improve perpetual inventory accuracy in stores dramatically, by 20%-30%. JC Penney improved perpetual inventory accuracy from 75% to 99% in categories using RFID. In the present paper we aim to develop a system that will use RFID item level tagging to exploit the benefits of RFID as well as provide a system which being cost effective will see its implementation in small and large scale store. Page 7

9 TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY Tools: Arduino IDE: - Arduino is a powerful IDE. The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing and other open-source software. Proteus: - This circuit simulation package from Lab centre Electronics helps in easy designing of circuits. It also provides simulation environment and PCB Layout. Proteus PCB design combines the schematic capture and PCB layout programs to provide a powerful, integrated and easy to use suite of tools for professional PCB Design. Raspbian: - Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. Raspbian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, precompiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi. Technology: Arduino: - The Mega 2560 is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega2560. It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 15 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with an AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started. Raspberry Pi: - The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card sized single-board computers developed in England, United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. All Raspberry Pis include the same VideoCore IV graphics processing unit (GPU), and either a single-core ARMv6-compatible CPU or a newer ARMv7-compatible quad-core one (in Pi 2); and 1 GB of RAM (in Pi 2), 512 MB (in Pi 1 models B and B+) or 256 MB (in models A and A+, and in the older model B). They have a Secure Digital (SDHC) slot (models A and B) or a MicroSDHC one (models A+, B+, and Pi 2) for boot media and persistent storage. RFID Readers: - An RFID reader is a network connected device (fixed or mobile) with an antenna that sends power as well as data and commands to the tags. The RFID reader acts like an access point for RFID tagged items so that the tags' data can be made available to business applications. RFID Tags: - A Radio Frequency Identification Tag (RFID tag) is an electronic tag that exchanges data with a RFID reader through radio waves. Most RFID tags are made up of at least two main parts. The first is an antenna, which receives radio frequency (RF) waves. The second is an integrated circuit (IC), which is used for processing and storing data, as well as modulating and demodulating the radio waves received/sent by the antenna. Page 8

10 Real Time Clock: - A real-time clock (RTC) is a computer clock (most often in the form of an integrated circuit) that keeps track of the current time. Graphics LCD: - A graphic LCD (liquid crystal display) is an electronic visual display technology used in different gadgets and information-output sources, mostly in display screens of electronic devices. This technology employs manipulating tiny crystals of a contained liquid crystal solution through precise electronic signals to perform graphic display operations over a two-dimensional physical screen. Bluetooth Module: - Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength UHF radio waves in the ISM band from 2.4 to GHz) from fixed and mobile devices and building personal area networks (PANs). Invented by telecom vendor Ericsson in 1994, it was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables. It can connect several devices, overcoming problems of synchronization. Wi-Fi Dongle: - A Wi-Fi dongle, also referred to as a data card, is a portable device that can be plugged into a computer's Ethernet port, providing mobile access to a finite amount of Internet data. These products can give users 2G, 3G or 4G connectivity speeds, and they are offered by numerous companies and service providers at varying prices and service plans. Cloud Storage: - Cloud storage is a model of data storage in which the digital data is stored in logical pools. Cloud storage services may be accessed through a co-located cloud computer service, a web service application programming interface (API) or by applications that utilize the API, such as cloud desktop storage, a cloud storage gateway or Web-based content management systems. Page 9

11 BLOCK DIAGRAM Figure 2: Block Diagram Page 10

12 SYSTEM FLOW CHART Figure 3: System Flow Chart Page 11

13 APPLICATIONS Retail Stores: A place of business usually owned and operated by a retailer but sometimes owned and operated by a manufacturer or by someone other than a retailer in which merchandise is sold primarily to ultimate consumers. Pantaloon Retail 65 stores and 21 factory outlets in 35 cities, 2 million square feet space Shoppers Stop Spencers Retail Reliance Retail 51 stores in 23 cities, 3.2 million square feet space 200 stores in 45 cities, 1 million square feet space 708 mart and supermarkets, 20 wholesale stores in 15 cities, 508 fashion and lifestyle Rs crore (US$180 million) per month sales in 2013 Bharti Retail 74 Easyday stores, plans to add 10 million square feet by 2017 Birla More Tata Trent Lifestyle Retail Future Group 575 stores nationwide 59 Westside mall stores, 13 hypermarkets 15 lifestyle stores, 8 home centers 193 stores in 3 cities, one of three largest supermarkets retailer in India by sales Rs. 916 crore (US$130 million) per month sales in 2013 Figure 4: Table showing Retail Stores in India Page 12

14 REFERENCES research.ijcaonline.org A.sarac,n.absi, s.dauzere-peres, a literature review of impact of rfid technologies in supply chain management, france, march Ankit anil agarwal, saurabh kumar sultania, gourav jaiswal, prateek jain. rfid based automatic shopping cart, control theory and informatics vol 1, no.1, Bill mcbeath, the explosion of retail item-level rfid: a foundation for the retail revolution, april Page 13

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