Volume 5, Issue 5, May – 2020 International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology

ISSN No:-2456-2165

Smart Carting System Using Simple

Android Application
Adesh. R [1], Dr. T. Sasikala [2]
[1] UG Student, Dept. Of Computer Science, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India
[2] Dean, School of Computing, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India

Abstract:- In today's world the technology play a major consuming and also requires a lot of human resources
role in each and every man's life to enhance and make which creates a mess in the aisle of the shopping malls and
the work easy so that the humans can lead happy and doesn’t increase the sale percentage which may result in the
effortless life as we are seeing the change of the culture loss of the service provider. In this paper, we propose a
in the shopping from a clumsy offline method to an easy solution and also a better way for the shopping which in
online but there are still people who prefer offline return increase the profit of the service provider and where
shopping over the online shopping due to the trust he can give discounts as he saved money in the work force
deficit but the offline shopping consume time as to pass required in the billing counters also from the increase of
the queue in front of the billing and cash counters sale, the product is named as “Smart Carting System
where it is necessary to bill the products what we Using Simple Android Application” this product is being
purchase and also pay for the same. So to overcome developed in a way that the user can shop for his needs and
these concerns this project propose the best way out of requirements in a very much efficient way where he can
the problems mentioned above by developing a system save the time and money. There are many advantages
that can be used to solve the above mentioned concerns added to this methodology which to say are saving the
and the challenges. In our project we provide the valuable time of the customers, reducing the confusion of
customers an application which we publish in the apps the sections of the products, transactions which are safe,
store and the google play store to which all the reliable and secure. Also, increase in the profit and the very
customers get access to it and after the installation the important thing is customer satisfaction. The only
customer can shop in an efficient way so that the drawback which the customer may face is the necessary of
customer might skip the long hectic queue in the billing the mobile phone but as the mobile phone has become
counter at the time of billing and also the shop keeper common for everyone this might not have a drastic or
can get his profits increased by reducing the man power adverse effect on implementing the proposed work. So, this
which he uses for billing of the product and changing can be applied to a number of shops of different
the bill payment online may encourage people to go departments and enterprises, Shopping malls, Shopping
cashless which enhances the security of the individual as complexes and Other Hyper super markets. The main
well. objective of this particular project is to deal with the
elimination of time consuming while shopping to the
Keywords:- Mobile Phone, Android Application, customers at the time of billing by designing an android
QR/Barcode Scanner, Time Saving, Reducing Human application which uses the inbuilt camera of the mobile
Resources, Increasing Profits, Providing Discounts and phone in order to scan the QR code or the Barcode which
Increase in Sale. allows the users to checkout by themselves and increase the
productivity of the time which they live in. The simple scan
I. INTRODUCTION of a QR code or a bar code may result in the whole
detailing of the product and also to add the same to the cart
This is an innovative product with a broad welcome the data which is decoded are stored in the server of a
for the society and this is the one that aids the convenience, centralized one and also send the bill through the Email in
efficiency and also the comfort in the daily life. Buying or order to go cashless which also decreases the use of paper.
purchasing of the products at shopping malls or the
shopping complexes has become a daily routine exercise of II. RELATED WORK
the daily life we see a huge and big crown going to the
places for shopping which seems very hectic and it is hectic In the existing system of shopping we go to the
at the time of weekends and the holidays. As people shopping malls or shopping complexes, so that we can shop
purchase the products traditionally they choose the product the necessary products which are required for our daily
which they like or they need and then put the same into a needs. So, first we take a trolley and go to the respective
trolley provided by the shopping malls after the collection department of the products which we need and choose the
of products we go into a queue and stand there in order to required product, put it in the trolley and do the same until
bill the products we collected and after that pay for the the shopping is completed and then go to the billing counter
same which we billed in the billing counters. At billing where the sales person or the cashier will be sitting and
counters the cashier or the sales person prepare the bill by scanning the products with the barcode reader or scanner in
scanning the products you collected in the trolley using the order to give the bill to customer and the customer checks
barcode scanner or reader which is very much time the bill and pays for the products which he collected for,

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this is what happens in the traditional shopping. As this situation may arise as all are well planned and is going to
seems to be a time consuming process and also requires a be executed for the welfare of customer and service
huge man power in order to fulfil the announced services provider. This might look like the project is creating an
by the shopping malls as mentioned in their mission and issue of unemployment but it also creating high level
vision programmes. As we see that the present scenario is literate jobs which are like the maintaining of the databases
very much tedious and time consuming it is very much of the products which are billed online and securing the
necessary to take care of the above arisen issues in the payment gateways. This is a revolution to the field of
methodology. Taking account of the workers working for shopping and marketing which may result in encouraging
the billing of the products which the customers buy, are to the people to go for the shopping which is equipped with
be paid but this technology which uses a simple android this project and with this particular service in order to
application may result in bringing up a big revolution benefit the whole community in all the possible ways like
which may result in getting more profits and decrease the the money, time and the workforce.
time which the customer shop so that no crowd handling

Fig 1:- Traditional Shopping Methodology.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM see where the different departments of the products in the
store are placed and then goes to the respective department
The methodology which we proposed in this project is of the product and gather all the products he wants to buy
very much effective to implement in the moving world but scans the QR code or the Bar code of the product then
which brings up many revolutions which will benefit the puts in the trolley after completing the shopping the
customer as well as the service provider in the chain of customer checkouts themselves and pay the bill online
these marketing industries which is very much useful in through any online payments gateways like the UPI id, Net
order to save the two important things in this world and banking, Credit/Debit card and also through the cash.
they are Money and time. This particular methodology
works in the way explained below, Firstly, the consumer This particular project also encourages the people to
may check online the products which he wants to buy is depend on the technology which is really inevitable
available in this store or not if yes then proceed to shopping comparing to any other traditional ways. Promoting this
or else then search for the other store or shop which has all might increase the productivity of the time which is
required products which the customer wants to buy, then consumed while shopping and also improve the way the
the customer proceeds to shop and here the customer can previous generations did the shopping ingeniously.

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Fig 2:- Proposed Shopping Methodology.

 Procedure:  Exact predictions of the things the customer wants to

The steps involved in this system as a procedure is shop as there is no means of product unavailability.
given as below:
 Register through an app. IV. MODULES DESCRIPTION
 Enter the necessary details.
 Account creation successful.  User Interface Design
 Login to your account. The interface which the customer interacts with is
 Start scanning using your mobile phone’scamera. designed in the android platform which is a Linux kernel
 After Finishing the shopping Submit. based operating system and the application which needs to
 The list is created and saved in the server. run the process is designed in the Android studio IDE. The
interface provides the services this part of the application
 You get the total amount of the products what you have
plays a major role in the triumphing of the success of the
purchased.
service provided through an application as a product.
 Pay the bill through your desired payment mode.
 Hardwares Required
 Advantages of the Proposed System
The only hardware which the customer needs to
There are plenty of advantages to the proposed system
obtain the service of this project is by having a smart phone
as mentioned above and the key points which are to be
which runs on android or even further developments can be
noted as follows:
seen for the iOS and all the remaining operating systems
 Saves plenty of time. and also the smart phone needs to be equipped with a
 Saves the money. camera with good image resolution and good image quality.
 Reduce the stress of handling the crowd. If the above mentioned requirements are fulfilled, then the
 Reduce the workforce needed and replace it with not service provider can provide his service flawlessly.
more than that of a mobile phone.
 Increase the productivity and the sale performance of
the industry where the product is implemented

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 Non Functioning Requiremnts The above mentioned requirements are very much
These are the fundamentals of sustainability of the necessary in order sun and provide the service as the
service which the product provides, even after creating and product needs to go through all the above mentioned
running the service perfectly the application needs its phrases of the non-functioning requirements.
patches as updates which like getting its maintenance
regularly to overcome any future security breaches. The V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
requirements are as follows:
As the strategies indicate with the graph of Number of
 Maintainability days and Percentage of increase in the sale is shown in
 Reliability below drawn graph which clearly states that the red line is
 Availability significantly lower than the black line as the red line is the
 Usability existing work’s analysis and the black line is the proposed
 Security work’s analysis.
 Productivity

Fig 3:- Graph of Number of Days versus Sale Percentage

The above graph clearly shows the increase in the sale VII. FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
so there is no question of productivity in this methodology
where there is almost 32% increase in the sale. This is from This particular technology can support many
the survey taken by the Cambridge university as people like enhancements to it as this technology can be highly
to shop much if there is exactness in the service and the modified as there are vast enhancements to cover. The
information provided. following are the enhancements which can be done for now
as it helps in bringing more productivity to the application
VI. CONCLUSION of this project. The enhancements are as follows:

As the market of today is very much interested in the  Setting up the cloud service and providing real-time
online ways and towards the way of technology the minds updates for the customer about the availability of the
today want the technology in each and every aspect as it product in nearest service provided store. Here, the
makes the life easier to live. So people never going to customer gets to know that the product which he wants
regret this following product as the people out in the to buy is in the stock or not and also this helps in
society will be feeling gifted for such upcoming ingenious decreasing the shopping failure to near zero.
services. As this results in the increasing in creating the  We can use the deep learning with machine learning
opportunities for which the people are thriving for. Also, and including the image processing which helps in
the market and the people not only need the technological providing the application to read the products directly
advancements they also want the time consuming to be rather than scanning the QR code or the Bar codes
brought down to none. which in return save a lot more time while shopping as
this upgrade helps in eliminating the time which takes
to find where exactly the barcode of the product is.

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 Installing the weighing machine in the checkout or exit
might help to reduce the theft of products, explaining it-
all the products in the world pin to plane each and
everything has a netted weight for itself so while
scanning the product we get the details of it where the
weight of the product is recorded and for all the
products gathered we get a total weight for the customer
shopping cart and

Then with the trolley when he exits there is a

weighbridge which eliminates the weight of the trolley and
gives the final weight if it matches with the total weight
then there is no theft or if an item is wrongly placed in the
trolley.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We are very thankful to our guide Dr. T. Sasikala

M.E., Ph.D., Dean, School of Computing, for her valuable
guidance, suggestions and encouragement throughout this
work. We convey our thanks to Dr. S. Vigneshwari M.E.,
Ph.D., Head of the Department, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, and Dr. L. Lakshmanan M.E.,
Ph.D., Head of the Department, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, for providing full support during
the reviews.

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