RFID based Smart Shopping: An Overview

Abstract

Electronic Commerce has become extremely popular with the rise in wireless technologies and other communication techniques. Purchasing and shopping at big malls is becoming daily activity in metro cities. There is a huge rush in such places during weekends and holidays. People purchase different items and put them in trolley. After completion of purchases, one needs to go to billing counter for payments. At the billing counter the cashier prepares the bill using bar code reader which is very time consuming process and results in long queue at the billing counter. A smart product is the one that aids the comfort, convenience and efficiency in everyday life. In this paper, we discuss an innovative concept of Intelligent Smart Shopping and Billing. The key idea here is to assist a person in everyday shopping in terms of reduced time spent while purchasing a product. The main goal is to provide a technology oriented, economical, easily scalable, and rugged system for aiding shopping in person.