Super Store Management with RFID

Abstract

Shopping at big malls and stores is becoming a daily activity in large and metropolitan cities. Customers face a big rush on holidays and weekends during their shopping experience. Customer faces a drastic situation in which when they add items to the trolley, they did not know about the price of the product and total bill. Product acquire- ment is a di cult method, customers have to wait in long queues at the checkout counter to scan and invoice their items. Furthermore, at the big stores with thousands of products in stock, customers have to probe many sections to nd their desired product. There's a need for a system that helps the customer to achieve comfort, convenience, and e ciency in his shopping experience. This report summarizes the implementation of an electronics hardware system with RFID (Radio Frequency Identi cation) Tags for stores. This report incorporates the investigation and execution of a frame- work which is utilizing the RFID for Super Store Management. This proposed system replaces a barcode scanner with an RFID reader and it is attached with a trolley to scan RFID tags that are associated with every product. The Liquid Crystal Display is xed with a trolley and displays the product and price information on a screen. Among its other bene ts, it facilitates the customer to nd a speci c product in multiple sections of store and save the hour of looking through for an item and furthermore demand a particular item in the wish list. This proposed system help storekeeper in restocking the things dependent on customer patterns. In this way, the system facilitates faster billing, security, reduces time and manpower in a very e ective manner.