International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume V, Issue III, March 2018 | ISSN 2321–2705

Automatic Billing System in Mall

Zarana Panchal, Hetal Rathwa
Student, Fr. Vadodara Institute of Engineering, Kotambi, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Abstract—The modern technology has increased the standard of customer while purchasing items and it maintains safe
living for the humans. Every one of us craves for a quality in distance between customer and itself. Only customer has to
everything we use in our daily lives. So, this has resulted in large swap the RFID tag in front of RFID reader.
crowds at shopping malls which have to lead to long lines at the
billing counter because the cashier has to scan every product 1.1 Proposed block arrangement of the system
item and then enter it into the billing record. The prevailing
billing system is a bit time-consuming. So, we have an idea of
inventing a remedial electronic product to catch-up with this
problem. We call it “Smart trolley with the automatic billing”.
RFID generally encompasses any wireless (or partially
wireless) communication that allows for remote retrieval of
information associated with a particular commodity, product,
component, or another item. This project put forwards a unique
solution to reduce the average time a customer spends at a
supermarket. The product with the appropriate tag is read by
the reader on the cart and the product’s details are displayed on
the LCD screen placed on the trolley. As the customer puts each
product in the trolley, it gets detected. The information of these
products along with the bill amount is displayed on the LCD
display. The bill amount is sent from the trolley to the server
(database) via ZIGBEE which is a short-range wireless 1.2 Working of the block diagram
communication.
Keywords— RFID Tag, RFID Reader, Zigbee, Arduino
Each basket is attached with RFID Reader. It will read
the RFID tags stickled on each item. At payment counter, the
net price of all the purchased products is calculated. Customer
I.INTRODUCTION
can get their billing information at the billing or packing
s the name “Automatic Billing System in mall”, indicates section according to their basket Identification Number. Even
A the main aim of our project that is to automatically
billing. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Reader is to be
there is no need for a cash collector, if in case a customer uses
their debit/credit for the net bill payment. The automated
used for scan the RFID Tag which is stickled on a product or central billing system consists of a transceiver and a
thing. The automatic task is performed with the help of server/system connected to access product database. When the
Arduino. It will make a total of items which is buying by customer enters the shopping mall, he/she will receive a
customer and amount will be displayed in LCD. For trolley on which there will be a RFID Reader, LCD Display.
communication purpose, Zigbee is to be used, which will send Thus, now the customer can use the smart trolley for
the total amount to central pc. shopping. Whenever the customer places a product into the
basket, the RFID Reader will read the tag information and
1. Conceptual definition of the system display the related results on the LCD Display.. This totally
RFID Reader recognizes the products put in the cart. depends on the customer choice. At the end of shopping, the
As soon as each item is placed, various information like item customer can straight away pay the bill and here RF Zigbee
name, price of the products are displayed in the LCD display module is to be used for the communication purpose to the
placed in the cart. Along with this total sum is also displayed. central pc in the mall or supermarket. Zigbee send the data to
The total bill amount will reach the bill counter by using the pc and details are displayed on computer and then after
Zigbee technology .Arduino will do automatic billing process. pay the bill, vendor can leave the shopping center. Inventory
Then the user has to pay just the total amount and can walk status of the products is also updated at the end of shopping.
away. Thus Item-level deployment of RFID technology 1.3 Explanation of block diagram
allows for quick checkout that scan all products at once and
generates total automatically, eliminating different sectional 1) RFID Tag: Tags are of two types: passive tags which
counters and long queues, which are consistently reported as have no battery life and active tags which have battery life.
one of the most negative aspects of supermarket shopping. For RFID tags released for automatically identifying a person, a
automatic billing we are developing, Arduino system based package or an items. These are transponders that transmit
„smart trolley‟ which is totally automatic. It follows the information. RFID tag contains two parts. One is integrated

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circuit for modulating, storing and processing information and

demodulating radio frequency (RF) signal.
2) RFID Reader: RFID reader consists of an RF module
that acts as a transmitter and receiver of radio frequency
signal. Transmitter consists of an oscillator to create the
carrier frequency; a modulator to make impact on data
commands upon this carrier signal & a receiver that contains
demodulator to extract the data returned. Fig. 3 RFID Reader
3) Arduino UNO: For this project, we use a very easy
to use microcontroller called Arduino. Arduino is an open
source project based the programming language is a variant
of C which is straight forward, and the system library is very
rich.. In the case of the Arduino, the precision is 5/1023 or
about 5 mV
Fig. 4 LCD (20*4)
4) LCD (20*4): LCD has the ability to display
numbers, characters and graphics. The display is interfaced
to I/O port of microcontroller (P0.0-P0.7). The display is in
multiplexed mode i.e. only one display remains on at a time.
Within 1/10th of a second the next display switches on. In
this way sequentially on and off display will result in
continuous display of count due to persistence of Vision.
Fig. 5 Zigbee
5) RF Zigbee module: The technology defined by the
Zigbee specification is intended to be simpler and less Sr.
List of Components Quantity(no) Cost*quantity cost
expensive than other wireless personal area No.
networks (WPANs), such as Bluetooth or more general 1 Arduino UNO R3 1 450*1 450
wireless networking such as Wi-Fi. Applications include 2 RFID Tag(125khz) 2 30*2 60
wireless light switches, home energy monitors, traffic
3 RFID Reader(Em 18) 1 700*1 700
management systems, and other consumer and industrial
equipment that requires short-range low-rate wireless data 5 jumper wires - 120 120
transfer. 6 LCD (20*4) 1 450*1 450
2. Figures and Tables 7 Push button 2 3*2 6
8 RF zigbee 1 1400*1 1400
9 Total 3004/-

Table 1: Cost Estimation

2.1 Advantages, Disadvantages, Applications

2.1.1 Advantages
Reduces manpower required in billing section. This
can reduce the expenses incurred by the management. Users
can be aware of the total bill amount during the time of
purchase. Reduces time spent at billing counter and Increases
Fig. 1 ArduinoUNO customer satisfaction.
2.1.2 Disadvantages
Expensive to implement on large scale. Henceforth,
difficult for small scale vendors to implement. Requires
constant battery backup. This requires constant care as
customers tend to get upset when the find their trolley runs
out of power during the middle of their shopping routine.
2.1.3 Applications

Fig. 2 RFID tag

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We implement to simplify the billing process, make RFID tag to some products. In such cases, conventional
it swift & increase the security using RFID technique. This scanning of barcode is more sophisticated. Further, a more
will take the overall shopping experience to a different level. sophisticated micro-controller and larger display system can
be used to provide better consumer experience.
Automatic billing of products by using RFID
technique will be a more viable option in the future. The
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