This paper is published in Volume-5, Issue-2, 2019
Area
Computer Engineering
Author
Mh. Tabrez Shaikh, Krishan Sidhwani, Amit Solanki, Prerit Udasi, Naveen Vaswani
Org/Univ
Watumull Institute of Electronics Engineering and Computer Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Pub. Date
18 April, 2019
Paper ID
V5I2-1919
Publisher
Keywords
NFC, NFC shopping, NFC tags

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Mh. Tabrez Shaikh, Krishan Sidhwani, Amit Solanki, Prerit Udasi, Naveen Vaswani. Shopping using NFC, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Mh. Tabrez Shaikh, Krishan Sidhwani, Amit Solanki, Prerit Udasi, Naveen Vaswani (2019). Shopping using NFC. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 5(2) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Mh. Tabrez Shaikh, Krishan Sidhwani, Amit Solanki, Prerit Udasi, Naveen Vaswani. "Shopping using NFC." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 5.2 (2019). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

The traditional system currently implemented for shopping at a retail store has been in place for a long time. However, it has its fair share of disadvantages associated with it. It requires the retail store to keep the products to be sold, ready on shelves to be picked up by the customer. This consumes a lot of space which gets overcrowded during sales and other offer periods. In addition to consumption of space, it also takes a lot of time for the cashier to scan the products and generate a bill which results in subsequent delay for other customers waiting in the queue. There is a need to find solutions to these problems and make shopping at a store a convenient option for users. To overcome these problems, we propose to use NFC (Near Field Communications) technology and improve the user’s shopping experience. NFC is a groundbreaking technology that works for short-range communication. NFC tags are available that can magnetically store data. To implement the system NFC tags will be placed in front of every product which can be scanned by the consumer’s mobile that must have NFC enabled. The tag can be placed in front of a sample product or an image depicting the product. The user must be connected to the internet to make use of this application. As soon as the consumer scans the tag all the details about the product will be added in the user’s cart. This will reduce the load on the cashier to scan every product to generate a bill, making the system more efficient and easy to use. There will be an android application for consumers. The store manager/admin will have the responsibility to manage (add/remove) products available for consumers to shop. A store admin can manipulate the data stored in the NFC tag. Admin will have a desktop website at his/her disposal to add information about the products available. Once the consumer registers for the shopping application he/she has to verify their account at admin’s desk. The admin has to add images, details, price, etc. of the product to be viewed by their consumers on their mobile application after the tag is scanned. This system will reduce the workforce required to maintain the products on the shelf. Hence the system will be cost effective and efficient for the store and convenient for the users.