NFC Based Store Automation

In the world of commercialization, shopping has seen a lot of evolution from small shops to mall to ecommerce giants. The ecommerce sector is evolving at a high pace, but it can nowhere be seen replacing the traditional shopping at malls for groceries or any products of daily use. So the proposed system aims at improving the traditional shopping experience. In the traditional shopping customers need to carry the basket/cart and pickup products and carry it around and checkout. But now proposed system aims to replace heavy basket/cart with smartphones. Smartphones come with a prebuilt NFC (Near Field Communication) reader/writer. These readers can read NFC tags. In the shopping centre, group of a similar product would have 1NFC tag that contains whole information about the products. Information includes the image of the product, a concise description of the product and its price etc. customer can touch or wave their mobile on NFC tag and add the product to the cart and they can also delete the products from basket at any interval during shopping. This way reduces the system task load effectively by half. At the merchant’s end, there would be a system for billing where customer would scan their smartphone and transfer the product details for billing. Merchant’s can also provide payment gateways or mobile wallets for payment. Keyword: e-commerce, mobile commerce, Near field communication.