Billing Counter Research Articles

Smart Shopping Cart Using Embedded System and Wireless Modules

Background: An invention with societal acknowledgment has an incredible outcome on the comfort and effectively of a regular life. Shopping at enormous shopping centers is almost a routine in the urban communities. We see a huge rush in these shopping centers on vacations and weekends. Individuals buy diverse things and place the items in the cart. After one completes the shopping, customers are supposed to go to the billing section for payments. At the billing counter, the cashier reads the bill utilizing the standardized identification (barcodes) reader which is an extreme waste of time resulting in the long waiting queue in the billing section. Keywords: Smart shopping cart, purchase item module, billing module, offer module.

CREDIT CARD - A WAY TO GENERATE LEGITIMATEMONEY FOR PAYMENTS

This paper discusses on credit card features, advantages and disadvantages. It helps the reader to enrich themselves in knowing about credit card in detail. Credit cards enable an individual to purchase products or services without paying immediately. The buyer only needs to present the credit cards at the cash counter and sign the bill. Credit card can, therefore, be considered as a good substitute for cash or cheques. A Credit card is a card or mechanism which enables cardholders to purchase goods, travel and dine in a hotel without making immediate payments. The main objective of this paper is to identify and study the advantages and disadvantages of using credit card. From this paper, it is observed that credit card is boon if the credit cardholder used with special care, otherwise the cardholder has to face deficit in their course of time.

LOW COST MICROCONTOLLER BASED AUTOMATIC BILLING SYSTEM WITH PROTECTIVE SHIELDING FROM RF WAVES

<p>Shopping Mall is a complex of shops representing various merchandisers that enables the customers to buy all their needed things. As it is easier for people to come and buy all their things in a common place, shopping malls are crowded. As people are coming in large numbers to buy the groceries and house hold products for the full month, the billing counters are flooded with people. In order to avoid such large queues at the billing counter, we are coming up with Smart Cart using newly evolved RFID Technology. In our proposed method, the bill is automatically generated in the trolley as the customer purchases the product.</p>

Advances in secure knowledge management in the big data era

Information is increasingly becoming important in our daily lives. We have become information dependents of the twenty-first century, living in an on-command, on-demand Big data world. In this era, more information is being created by individuals than by business houses. In the past, we had to stand in a queue at a railway reservation counter to book our tickets, had to visit a cash counter in a bank to do our transactions, had to arrange a get together at a physical location within our town to meet and socialize with our friends, had to visit a theater to watch a movie, and so on. We now have Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to help us do all these by sitting in front of a computer and with a few mouse clicks. Also, all these advancements are possible because we are drenched in a flood of data today. It is important to distinguish between data, information and knowledge. Data is a set of facts about events.

NFC based inventory control system for secure and efficient communication

This paper brings up this idea of using Near Field Communication (NFC) for inventory control system instead of using traditional barcodes. NFC because of its high security, ease of use and efficiency can be very suitable for systems like inventory control. In traditional inventory control systems, each product has a barcode pasted on it, which is vulnerable to attacks as barcodes are open and have no security. Furthermore, barcodes are prone to damages and can be unreliable when pasted on different types of products e.g. hot and frozen products, circular shaped products and irregular shaped products like clothes etc. NFC on the other hand is very efficient, secure and reliable when it comes to short-range wireless communication. In this paper we will present our prototype for the inventory control system of an electronic store in which each product has a passive NFC tag pasted to it. When a customer buys a product the receipt of the product is generated using NFC between the NFC passive tag on the product and NFC enabled device (e.g. smart phone or reader) at the cash counter.

Study of Queuing System of a Busy Restaurant and a Proposed Facilitate Queuing System

In a restaurant waiting for service is a common phenomenon for the customer. Restaurant owners are not concerned about the matter of waiting customer though they do not want their customer would go another competitor's door. There are several determining factors for a restaurant to be considered as a good or a bad one. Taste, cleanliness, the restaurant layout and settings are some of the most important factors. These factors, when managed carefully, will be able to attract plenty of customers, However, there is also another factor that needs to be considered especially when the restaurant has already succeeded in attracting customers. This factor is the customers queuing time. Queuing theory is the study of queue or waiting lines. Some of the analysis that can be derived using queuing theory include the expected waiting time in the queue, the average time in the system, the expected queue length, the expected number of customers served at one time, the probability of balking customers, as well as the probability of the system to be in certain states, such as empty or full. Hence, queuing theory is suitable to be applied in a restaurant setting since it has an associated queue or waiting line where customers who cannot be served immediately have to queue (wait) for service. Researchers have previously used queuing theory to model the restaurant operation reduce cycle time in a busy fast food restaurant as well as to increase throughput and efficiency. In this study, the average service time, average idle time, and average waiting time at cash counter are measured.

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