RFID AND IOT BASED SMART

TROLLEY

1 BACKGROUND

The dynamic growth and the advent of new and code in order to obtain information, while in the
exciting development in the field of IOT (Internet case of RFID, the use of radio waves as a means of
of Things) have paved the way for unique ways of

using technology in a lot of fields. Wireless recording data means that no line of sight is

communication combined with radio and frequency required. Since RFID tags can be attached to

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sensing gives a whole new dimension to the way
people interact with devices and use them in their
physical money, clothing, and possessions, or

daily routine. Nowadays, supermarkets and

reading personally-linked information without
shopping complexes have become so
implanted in animals and people, the possibility of

commonplace, that they are no longer a luxury consent has raised serious privacy concerns. RFID
enabled shopping cart makes it a state-of-the-art

afforded only by urban cities. They have expanded system for shopping. On completion of the
beyond the domain of big cities and ventured into
rural areas as well. Anybody can go to these stores
customer’s shopping, he/she will press the button
and buy products that they need, but they are not
present on the trolley, which will lock it through
entirely convenient, especially when a customer
the help of a servo motor installed on the trolley to
has to wait for hours in queues on busy days. In
provide security and prevent theft and the final bill
will be generated. The customer simply has to put a
recent times, the RFID technology has been product in the trolley and let the reader scan the
developing rapidly, and we’re seeing its product for information. By fitting the trolley with
applications in a variety of industries, from a touch-enabled LCD that can display product
employee ID cards being scanned in the office to information, it also gives us a feasible system of
the issuing of books in libraries. RFID stands for providing the customer with all the information like
Radio-Frequency Identification, where information manufacturing date.
is digitally encoded into tags which can be used to
uniquely identify a product. The RFID tags are
generally captured using radio waves and the
2 IMPLEMENTATION
captured data is stored into a database. The RFID The idea is to develop a smart shopping cart fitted
tags are somewhat similar to the traditional bar with facial recognition and information retrieval
codes in their purpose and functionality, as they are features. They have also used an automated billing
used for data processing. However, there are a few system to avoid queues during checkouts to provide
key differences between the two. Bar code usually a comfortable shopping experience with the
requires a bar code reader to visually register the integration of the Internet of Things into the cart
for a smart system that assists the customers. The LCD: It's a type of liquid display. It consists of 2
system allows a customer to scan the items and the rows and sixteen columns. Every part of display
trolley automatically updates the total cost and bills has a row or a column, that successively has eight
the customer. It also has the provision of setting a rows and 5 columns called constituent. It has got
budget, which when exceeded, sounds an alarm, as sixteen pins wherever information is fed through
well as the removal of products and their cost from eight pins only. The provision voltage ought to be
the total bill if a person deems it unnecessary. The 5volts. The registers confirm the correct
system is built such that billing information is sent functioning, specifically information and
to a central server in real-time using the ESP8266 command. Information register takes ASCII
Wi-Fi module which tracks all the shopping (American Standard Code for Information
trolleys and allows the client to log into the Interchange) values for characters to be displayed.
integrated app to track purchase and make Command register takes values for creating useful
payments digitally on the spot. changes like backlight distinction, pointer position
etc. Purpose of LCD is for displaying information
2.1 COMPONENTS ANALYSIS to the client like welcome note, product catalogue,
RFID reader: EM-18 is employed that operates at product details, invoice etc.
5volts DC and fewer than 50mA. The frequency at ESP8266EX : ESP8266EX delivers highly
that it works in 125 kHz. It will cover a distance of integrated Wi-Fi solution to meet users’
10cm. It ceaselessly emits RF signals throughout its continuous demands for efficient power usage,
range and whenever an RFID tag is within its area, compact design and reliable performance in the
it retrieves the knowledge held on within the tag. Internet of Things industry.
Purpose of RFID reader is to retrieve the The gear motor has the additional ring with teeth
merchandise information from their RFID tags. The like projections hooked up to the shaft of the motor
RFID reader signals are everywhere with it’s to confirm uniform speed throughout the rotation of

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proximity to detect a tag. When a RFID tag comes the rotor. Purpose of DC in motor is for correct gap
in the proximity of the RFID reader the tag detects and shutting of the streetcar door.
the readers signal through a coil present in it which
converts the received RF signal into a electrical
signal. 2.2 BLOCK DIAGRAM
RFID tags: These tags comprise of a
semiconductor device for storage of its distinctive
range and a coil that acts as an antenna for
diverging its hold on information. It should or
might not have electric battery relying upon its sort
either active or passive severally. Passive tags are
used that doesn’t have electric battery. As presently
because the tag comes within the RFID reader
coverage vary, Reader emits radio signals which
supplies power for passive tags and it re-emits the
radio based signal with information to the reader.
Purpose of RFID tags is to unambiguously
establish merchandise.
Motor driver: Motor driver could be a setup that
has 2 input offer and a ground. One offer for circuit
and alternative to pass to the motor. We have a
tendency to used driver circuit that is capable of 3 RESULTS
dominant motor rated up to 12volts. Purpose of When the customer puts the product in the Smart
motor driver circuit is to regulate the motor. Trolley, the Radio Frequency ID reader scans the
Micro-controller: ATMEGA32 is employed tag and the Electronic Product Code number is
wherever it's an eight bit AVR based architecture generated. Radio Frequency ID reader passes the
machine. It operates at 4.5 to 5.5volts DC. It’s a 40 Electronic Product Code to the microcontroller.
pin PDIP with xxxii programmable I/O lines. It The name and price of the product obtained by the
consists of non-volatile 32kB of in-system and self- controller gets displayed on the LCD of the Smart
programmable flash, 1024B variant EEPROM and Trolley, where client can see the item data. To store
2kB variant of internal SRAM. Its options like the item price and total billing data, microcontroller
timers, A/D converters, PWM and serial interface. memory is used. LCD is interfaced with
Process speed ranges zero to 16MHz. thus it stores microcontroller in 4bit mode. It is used to indicate
the directions and method consequently. Purpose of the purchaser, the action taken by the purchaser
microcontroller is to regulate the full method that is inserting of an item, removal of an item,
continuously in a repeated manner. item’s price and total billing cost of items in the
trolley. As per the test, when putting an item into In the current system, bar codes are used for
the smart cart or expelling an item from the cart, scanning the product details where the customers
the smart cart is able to precisely read it. One tend to wait in long queue for generating the bill
astonishing outcome is that the metal outside the followed by payment. At times, the bar codes
cart obstructs the signal to a high degree that when would have been damaged and that particular
the reader is inside the cart, no item outside the cart product cannot be scanned by a bar code scanner
can be read. This clearly indicates that an item put leading to confusion. Also, each and every product
into a smart cart will not be perused by a nearby has to be scanned manually. Where in each trolley
cart accidently. A RFID reader is installed at the had an RFID reader and RFID tags were present for
checkout point so that the items in the cart can be each product. Once the product is scanned, the
meticulously read. The smart trolley system information is displayed on the LCD screen to
architecture involves two sections such as show all product related information to the
embedded and IOT. In the embedded section, consumer. The aim was to help customer evade
microcontroller is used to coordinate with the RFID long queues but it also posed the disadvantage of
reader, LCD and Wi-fi module to perform possible thefts as well as collisions. The authors of
computing functions. accomplished in creating a centralized system for
automatic billing. The biggest advantage of this
system was that enabled the customer to go
3.1 HARDWARE SETUP cashless, thus, successfully implementing a method
to avoid queues. Smart shopping trolley application
creates an automated central billing system in
malls. The product information are directly sent to
billing system. So that customers no need to wait in
a long queue. It is trustworthy, highly dependable

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and time efficiency. The use of LCD in this trolley
make it user-friendly. LCD displays the name of
product, cost of product and total bill. Automatic
billing is done in trolley so it saves the time of
customer and reduce the rush at billing counter. It
also reduces the man power. Because, of the use of
IOT it will also helpful to owner.

5 AVAILABILITY AND
REQUIREMENTS
Project Name- RFID and IOT based Smart trolley
Operating systems- Windows/C language in
Arduino
3.2 SOFTWARE SETUP
6 ADDITIONAL
INFORMMATIONS
6.1Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing
interests.
6.2Authors’ contributions
The author’s perfomed the setup in proteus
software. The software setup is included i the
paper. The first author approved the final
manuscript

7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank our guide and professors of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department,
Sri Krishna college of Engineering and Technology
for their guidance, support and facilities extended
to us. Many people have encouraged us to complete
4 CONCLUSION the paper and hardware work of our project. The
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