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Abstract
Shopping is an activity in which a customer browser the available goods and services presented by one or more retailers with the intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. As the result,there will be huge rush in the shopping malls during weekend and holidays. People will purchase different items,soon after completion of purchase they have to wait in the billing counter for long time. As the Cashier has to scan each item individually which consumes more time for billing.Above problems can be rectified by using Arduino based smart cart shopping System which it consists of Arduino board , RFID reader, IR module,Zigbee module and Load cell were fixed in the cart itself. RFID reader is used to scann the RFID tags in each products.The IR module and Load cell are used to prevent the malpractice, which during scanning process the IR signal turned off with respective delay of time and simultaneously weight of the product is also measured by the load cell. If there is more weight in the cart when compared with total scanned products weight, then alarm arises via buzzer.
By using Zigbee, which connect and gather the information about purchased items from the main server during the shopping. Additionally, scanned items weight will be measured by using Load cell . Finally total price of purchase items will be displayed in cart itself. In this Billing performed automatically by gathering data from the server.