Design and construction of a smart shopping trolley
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2020-05
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Abstract
Shopping at a supermarket is an everyday human activity and with the increasing
convenience to access supermarkets, overcrowding and the tired use of trolleys have become a
problem. This project integrates many subsystems in the IoT domain to devise a solution to cut
down on overcrowding and ease the burden of using shopping trolleys. A smart shopping
trolley that automatically follows the user and provides opportunity for automated billing was
designed in this project. The smart shopping cart is fitted with the ability to scan products to
update an inventory, transmit data to a cashier point-of-sale and track where the shopper moves
and directly follow. Added security to the cart ensures the cart is safe from being used by the
wrong user and running into objects. The automated shopping trolley will make shopping easier
and faster by providing a shopping experience that freesshoppersin supermarketsfrom directly
handling trolleys and helps them circumvent the issue of long queues.
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Capstone Project submitted to the Department of Engineering, Ashesi University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, May 2020
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Internet of Things (IoT), shopping trolley, point-of-sale cashier