Building a Smart Cart System for Retail Store...

Building a Smart Cart System for Retail Stores using IOT and Machine Learning

Author Name : Geetansh Kalra, Dr. Santosh Sonavane

ABSTRACT

The “Smart Cart System”, is a new consumer cart that is designed to help consumers for better shopping experience. This system will help consumers to avoid standing in long lines and save a lot of time for payment of their bills. Micro-controller and Camera will be installed in the cart which will take the help of Object Detection {Machine Learning technique} in real time to automatically scan the product being entered into the cart. Also, an LCD is used to display the product being placed in the cart and its price. Using the concept of IOT and AI it can also recommend the consumer the products which he/she can buy based on the products which they have kept in the cart.

The Recommendations can be shown on LCD too. Once the Consumer is done with the shopping, the bill will be displayed on the LCD itself and they would be able to pay through cards or UPI methods on the cart itself.  This would also help us to support Digital India initiative. The concept will revolutionize the shopping experience of the consumers and can also be used to improve the inventory management in retail stores. Introduction of this smart carts in India can change the way Retail Sectors used to work

Keywords: IoT (Internet of things), Machine Learning, Object Detection, Recommendation Systems