Project Abstract

In today’s technology, many companies are developing products that ensure convenience toward all people. One of the conveniences that involved will be providing with new and easy shopping experience. With a problem of waiting in a long queue to check-out the shopping items, new technology must be implemented to provide lowest delay time. Thus, the project team is developing a Smart Shopping Cart, a system that allows faster check-out. A device that consists of an LCD screen, a barcode reader, microprocessor, a wireless card, Bluetooth, and a portable battery will be implemented on the shopping cart. The user would scan the Universal Product Code (UPC) that contains on the shopping item using the barcode reader. The barcode information will be stored into a computer’s memory, and checked against a database from which it would retrieve the appropriate information. A software package will link up the device with the database and Bluetooth device. It will also enable the microprocessor to calculate the total price for all scanned items, and display it on the LCD screen. If the customer is ready to make a payment, he would pass the cart through the cashier. The total price will be sent to the cashier using Bluetooth, and the receipt will be automatically printed. All the customer has to do is to pay for the total price without unloading the items from the cart. The team expects that the smart shopping cart will be a more reliable form of check-out process that will decrease the amount of time a customer has to wait while shopping.