A study of smart shopping system using radio frequency identification

Abstract

This project report presents a smart shopping system by using RFID technology. The usage of RFID improves the current system of payment method at the payment counter. The current payment system in most supermarkets is using barcode and a scanner to read the code. The bar code is used to identify the information such as a product price, product name and others. Using this method, product price need to be scan one by one by the scanner to get the prices and also the total price. Since this method will take some times, consumers have to wait before they can pay the total price to the cashier. This could be worst if there are many consumers want to make the payment and each of them buy a lot of goods. This research will be divided into two parts which are the hardware module and the software module. In this study, RFID reader with five active tags, C# programming language and Microsoft Access 2007 as a database were used to build the whole system. This new system can ensure that the product prices and the total price bought by the customer could be displayed all at once.