Vriddhiyaan- Smart Shopping carts using Raspberry Pi Systems
Prof. Pravin Annadate1, Prof. Akshata Bhat2. Anushka Mukehreje3, Gautam Patil4, Atul Gaud4, Manas Shinde5
1 Assistant Professor, DAO, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
2. Assistant professor
2 Student, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
3 Student, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
4 Student, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
5 Student, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
ABSTRACT: According to ICSC the average wait time in shopping marts in the United States is at least 135 minutes. One of the main reasons why youngsters these days are focussing on online shopping is to avoid long lines and wasting their precious time. However, supermarkets like D Mart are still popular amongst the people of India for their discounted items. According to a survey done by Ch. Hymavathi and Abhilash Nissankara Rao regarding queues and queue times in Guntur city, Andhra Pradesh, in rush hours, billing counters can get very crowded. As crowded as a line of 30 shopping carts within 8 minutes [5]. This may put tremendous pressure also on retail workers. Hence it would be better if the consumers could bill themselves so that the billing time could be reduced greatly [1] . In the United States, an initiative such as so has been taken however it is on a small scale that is only in one mall in Los Angeles called Amazon Dash Cart. However, the same solution cannot be added in India due to reasons like lack of capital and non-adaptability of other forms of payment in the former one. So here is VRIDDHIYAAN, our very own cart. It's an easy and adaptable solution in the form of a cart in which the consumers can bill themselves and will get a paperless bill on their screen while they are putting their groceries in the cart.
KEYWORDS: shopping, queue, wait time, digital bill, paperless bill, shopping mall, retail, billing.
