What is Smart Shopping Trolley

The smart shopping trolley is designed to make the shopping much easier. The Smart trolley is equipped with a range of functions to create an interactive shopping experience between the user and the trolley. supermarket holders have been faced regarding the trolley. the trolleys are often taken outside the supermarket premises or are not returned to the trolley stack. this project will help trolleys to return back to the stack and also be monitored by the administrative staff. this will reduce the rate of trolley theft and damage. 

There have been continuous advancements in the previous years to make supermarkets more user-friendly. A customer can now check all the available products in the market at the trolley. In this project, IoT is utilized to assist the trolley to guide itself and monitor its location. The main focus of this project is to reduce the waiting time of the customers at the billing area and also to keep track of the position of the trolley. The trolley will act like a robot and will be programmed to return back to the stack of trolleys whenever the weight sensor senses the trolley is empty. Customer will initiate the process of shopping by starting the trolley simply by pushing a button. The weight sensor operates only when the shopping is completed which is again marked by the customers by pushing the stop button. The data of the sensors are transferred to the cloud. The trolley web-app will fetch data from the cloud and will run necessary programs. Our system will make the administration aware of the number of trolleys available to customers for shopping, the number of trolleys in use, the location of trolleys and also will help in their arrangement without any additional staff.