A Localized and Efficient System for Smart Shopping Using Internet of Things

Abstract

A smart object can be any object that is connected to the internet and its used for any specific use. Numerous applications can be performed by making use of these smart objects. IoT is used in various applications and has obtained an immense growth in this technical era. Use of IoT in shopping can be of great use. Various research works have been propped to design various applications that could be used for smart shopping. In this paper, an RFID tag is attached to each product which consists of the information about the product. When a user tends to shop for a particular product he enters his wish list in the application provided in his smartphone. The application gives him the shops where the product is readily available and also gives the entire comparison of the product in all the possible shops. Some of the comparisons that are specified are the price difference, the location of the shop, the timings when the shop will be open and lots more. The user can compare all the possible comparisons and decide which shop he can buy the product. The performance evaluation of the application is done and numerous parameters are a measure to make it an efficient smart shopping system.