FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[001] The present invention relates to the field of the shopping cart assembly with item tracking. The invention more particularly relates to an intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT and method thereof.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[002] The following description provides the information that may be useful in understanding the present invention. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art or relevant to the presently claimed invention, or that any publication specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.
[003] Further, the approaches described in this section are approaches that could be pursued, but not necessarily approaches that have been previously conceived or pursued. Therefore, unless otherwise indicated, it should not be assumed that any of the approaches described in this section qualify as prior art merely by virtue of their inclusion in this section.
[004] Conventional shopping carts impose several issues and problems. Conventional shopping carts are usually built to provide a large receptacle to retain as many merchandises as possible. These carts are too bulky for large retail locations, such as, but not limited to, a shopping mall, that have escalators and stairs. In order to analyse the customer's need and to improve the shopping experience, it is necessary to analyse a pattern of the shoppers in a store with data item tracking. Reducing a foot traffic or placing the merchandise in an optimized fashion can not only increase sales, but also can prevent the loss of shoppers' visits due to fatigue and unpleasant shopping experience.
[005] Accordingly, on the basis of aforesaid facts, there remains a need in the prior art to provide an intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT and method thereof. The proposed system overcomes the problem of conventional shopping cart, and which have the potential of accelerating the various intelligent modules, which is administered from a central site through AI & ML based tracked data processing. Therefore, it would be useful and desirable to have an assembly, system, method, apparatus and interface to meet the above-mentioned needs.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
[006] In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of conventional shopping cart assembly, are now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT, which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages. The object of the present invention is to avoid the above-mentioned problems and create a unified system for providing the better and efficient solution with tracked data processing schemes and techniques.
[007] The main aspect of the present invention is to provide an intelligent shopping cart assembly, which is further configured with a tracking system starts, and at the means position and the track route that show that screen display is bought, is further provided with the function of the position of each shopping cart of location.
[008] Another aspect of the present invention, wherein each of the shopping cart is connected with the computation server in the super-market by the wireless network in market, carry out information exchange, each of the shopping cart is all a mobile shopping terminals.
[009] The proposed system and method is implemented on the processing unit functioning with, but not limited to, the Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and the like, PC, Microcontroller and with other known processors to have computer algorithms and instruction up gradation for supporting many applications domain where the aforesaid problems to solution is required.
[010] In this respect, before explaining at least one object of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of set of rules and to the arrangements of the various models set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other objects and of being practiced and carried out in various ways, according to the need of that industry. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
[011] These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated preferred embodiments of the invention.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[012] The invention will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
[013] FIG. 1, illustrates a schematic diagram of an intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT and method thereof, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention; and
[014] FIG. 2, illustrates another block diagram of the intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT and method thereof, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[015] While the present invention is described herein by way of example using embodiments and illustrative drawings, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention is not limited to the embodiments of drawing or drawings described and are not intended to represent the scale of the various components. Further, some components that may form a part of the invention may not be illustrated in certain figures, for ease of illustration, and such omissions do not limit the embodiments outlined in any way. It should be understood that the drawings and detailed description thereto are not intended to limit the invention to the particular form disclosed, but on the contrary, the invention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims. As used throughout this description, the word "may" is used in a permissive sense (i.e. meaning having the potential to), rather than the mandatory sense, (i.e. meaning must). Further, the words "a" or "an" mean "at least one” and the word “plurality” means “one or more” unless otherwise mentioned. Furthermore, the terminology and phraseology used herein is solely used for descriptive purposes and should not be construed as limiting in scope. Language such as "including," "comprising," "having," "containing," or "involving," and variations thereof, is intended to be broad and encompass the subject matter listed thereafter, equivalents, and additional subject matter not recited, and is not intended to exclude other additives, components, integers or steps. Likewise, the term "comprising" is considered synonymous with the terms "including" or "containing" for applicable legal purposes. Any discussion of documents, acts, materials, devices, articles and the like is included in the specification solely for the purpose of providing a context for the present invention. It is not suggested or represented that any or all of these matters form part of the prior art base or were common general knowledge in the field relevant to the present invention.
[016] In this disclosure, whenever a composition or an element or a group of elements is preceded with the transitional phrase “comprising”, it is understood that we also contemplate the same composition, element or group of elements with transitional phrases “consisting of”, “consisting”, “selected from the group of consisting of, “including”, or “is” preceding the recitation of the composition, element or group of elements and vice versa.
[017] The present invention is described hereinafter by various embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein reference numerals used in the accompanying drawing correspond to the like elements throughout the description. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiment set forth herein. Rather, the embodiment is provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. In the following detailed description, numeric values and ranges are provided for various aspects of the implementations described. These values and ranges are to be treated as examples only and are not intended to limit the scope of the claims. In addition, a number of materials are identified as suitable for various facets of the implementations. These materials are to be treated as exemplary and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
[018] Referring now to the drawings, these are illustrated in FIG. 1 & 2, the present invention discloses an intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT and method thereof. The system is comprised of, but not limited to, a plurality of shopping carts, each of the plurality of shopping carts including: a main frame holding a basket which holds paper bags, a digital weight scale meter disposed under to the basket that allows the basket to rest freely on the digital weight scale meter, a digital control panel with a microcontroller mounted to each of the plurality of shopping carts, a scanner module attached to the digital control panel to scan items with a QR code, a primary and a secondary battery designed to be recharged and power each of the plurality of shopping carts; a tracking device to prevent their; and a unique shopping cart identification QR code.
[019] In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, a computation server coupled to peripheral super-market computers via a local area network, the peripheral super-market computers communicate to the plurality of shopping carts using local area wireless technology (Wi-Fi).
[020] In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, a means for verify a received item weight with a weight of the first scanned item previously registered in the computation server or verify the received item weight when the first scanned item rests on a first weight scale in the super-market.
[021] In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, the first weight scale weights a total weight of a plurality of first items on the first weight scale and registers the total weight with the computation server and the computation server subtracts the received item weight to the registered total weight.
[022] In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, the digital scale meter is further provided with shopping information that shows the screen display supermarket, navigation positioning system which shows the shopping course diagram on screen, the self-open-close induction door is inserted the information of article in the basket.
[023] In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, the abnormal alarm system of information starts, and self-service checkout system assists the customer's self-help settlement.
[024] In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, the induction door is for the means that are provided with inductor, sense means after the self-open-close induction door open, insert article in bicycle basket.
[025] In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, the processing unit includes, but not limited to, a processor and a storage medium; wherein the storage medium stores a computer program adapted to be loaded by the processor and to perform the method steps of any of the above embodiments.
[026] Further, the exemplary computer system for implementing various embodiments consistent with the present disclosure, which may be used for implementing the intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT and method thereof. Computer system may comprise a central processing unit (“CPU” or “processor”). Processor may comprise at least one data processor for executing program components for executing user or system-generated requests. A user may include a person, a person using a device such as such as those included in this disclosure, or such a device itself. The processor may include specialized processing units such as integrated system (bus) controllers, memory management control units, floating point units, graphics processing units, digital signal processing units, etc. The processor may include a microprocessor, such as AMD Athlon, Duron or Opteron, ARM’s application, embedded or secure processors, IBM PowerPC, Intel’s Core, Itanium, Xeon, Celeron or other line of processors, etc. The processor may be implemented using mainframe, distributed processor, multi-core, parallel, grid, or other architectures. Some embodiments may utilize embedded technologies like application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), etc.
[027] Processor may be disposed in communication with one or more input/output (I/O) devices via I/O interfaces. The I/O interfaces may employ communication protocols/methods such as, without limitation, audio, analog, digital, monoaural, RCA, stereo, IEEE-1394, serial bus, universal serial bus (USB), infrared, PS/2, BNC, coaxial, component, composite, digital visual interface (DVI), high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), RF antennas, S-Video, VGA, IEEE 802.n /b/g/n/x, Bluetooth, cellular (e.g., code-division multiple access (CDMA), high-speed packet access (HSPA+), global system for mobile communications (GSM), long-term evolution (LTE), WiMax, or the like), etc.
[028] In some embodiments, the processor may be disposed in communication with one or more memory devices (e.g., RAM, ROM, etc.) via a storage interface. The storage interface may connect to memory devices including, without limitation, memory drives, removable disc drives, etc., employing connection protocols such as serial advanced technology attachment (SATA), integrated drive electronics (IDE), IEEE-1394, universal serial bus (USB), fiber channel, small computer systems interface (SCSI), etc. The memory drives may further include a drum, magnetic disc drive, magneto-optical drive, optical drive, redundant array of independent discs (RAID), solid-state memory devices, solid-state drives, etc. The memory devices may store a collection of program or database components, including, without limitation, an operating system, user interface application, web browser, mail server, mail client, user/application data (e.g., any data variables or data records discussed in this disclosure), etc. The operating system may facilitate resource management and operation of the computer system. Examples of operating systems include, without limitation, Apple Macintosh OS X, Unix, Unix-like system distributions (e.g., Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.), Linux distributions (e.g., Red Hat, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.), IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Apple iOS, Google Android, Blackberry OS, or the like.
[029] The word “module,” “model” “algorithms” and the like as used herein, refers to logic embodied in hardware or firmware, or to a collection of software instructions, written in a programming language, such as, for example, Java, C, Python or assembly. One or more software instructions in the modules may be embedded in firmware, such as an EPROM. It will be appreciated that modules may comprised connected logic units, such as gates and flip-flops, and may comprise programmable units, such as programmable gate arrays or processors. The modules described herein may be implemented as either software and/or hardware modules and may be stored in any type of computer-readable medium or other computer storage device. Further, in various embodiments, the processor is one of, but not limited to, a general-purpose processor, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processor. Furthermore, the data repository may be a cloud-based storage or a hard disk drive (HDD), Solid state drive (SSD), flash drive, ROM or any other data storage means.
[030] The above-mentioned invention is provided with the preciseness in its real-world applications to provide an intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT and method thereof. The system is used with an online computation server, which can be optionally connected to a cloud network. Further, the present invention comprises ongoing real-time support provided over a cloud or any kind of wireless network such as the Internet, wherein ideas and recommended practices are shared.
[031] It is to be understood that the above description is intended to be illustrative, and not restrictive. For example, the above-discussed embodiments may be used in combination with each other. Many other embodiments will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reviewing the above description.
[032] The benefits and advantages which may be provided by the present invention have been described above with regard to specific embodiments. These benefits and advantages, and any elements or limitations that may cause them to occur or to become more pronounced are not to be construed as critical, required, or essential features of any or all of the embodiments.
[033] While the present invention has been described with reference to particular embodiments, it should be understood that the embodiments are illustrative and that the scope of the invention is not limited to these embodiments. Many variations, modifications, additions and improvements to the embodiments described above are possible. It is contemplated that these variations, modifications, additions and improvements fall within the scope of the invention.

We Claim:

1. An intelligent shopping cart for tracking product using IoT, comprising:
a plurality of shopping carts, each of the plurality of shopping carts including: a main frame holding a basket which holds paper bags, a digital weight scale meter disposed under to the basket that allows the basket to rest freely on the digital weight scale meter, a digital control panel with a microcontroller mounted to each of the plurality of shopping carts, a scanner module attached to the digital control panel to scan items with a QR code, a primary and a secondary battery designed to be recharged and power each of the plurality of shopping carts; a tracking device to prevent their; and a unique shopping cart identification QR code.
2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a computation server coupled to peripheral super-market computers via a local area network, the peripheral super-market computers communicate to the plurality of shopping carts using local area wireless technology (Wi-Fi).
3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a means for verify a received item weight with a weight of the first scanned item previously registered in the computation server or verify the received item weight when the first scanned item rests on a first weight scale in the super-market.
4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first weight scale weights a total weight of a plurality of first items on the first weight scale and registers the total weight with the computation server and the computation server subtracts the received item weight to the registered total weight.
5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital scale meter is further provided with shopping information that shows the screen display supermarket, navigation positioning system which shows the shopping course diagram on screen, the self-open-close induction door is inserted the information of article in the basket.
6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the abnormal alarm system of information starts, and self-service checkout system assists the customer's self-help settlement.
7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the induction door is for the means that are provided with inductor, sense means after the self-open-close induction door open, insert article in bicycle basket.
8. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tracking system starts, and at the means position and the track route that show that screen display is bought, is further provided with the function of the position of each shopping cart of location.
9. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the shopping cart is connected with the computation server in the super-market by the wireless network in market, carry out information exchange, each of the shopping cart is all a mobile shopping terminals.