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Konark: A RFID based System for Enhancing In-store Shopping Experience

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Swadhin Pradhan,

Karthik Sundaresan,

Sampath Rangarajan,

Lili QiuAuthors Info & Claims

WPA '17: Proceedings of the 4th International on Workshop on Physical Analytics

Pages 19 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/3092305.3092307

Published: 19 June 2017 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) based smart shopping system, KONARK, which helps users to checkout items faster and to track purchases in real-time. In parallel, our solution also provides the shopping mall owner with information about user interest on particular items. The central component of KONARK system is a customized shopping cart having a RFID reader which reads RFID tagged items. To provide check-out facility, our system detects in-cart items with almost 100% accuracy within 60s delay by exploiting the fact that the physical level information (RSSI, phase, doppler, read rate etc.) of in-cart RFID tags are different than outside tags. KONARK also detects user interest with 100% accuracy by exploiting the change in physical level parameters of RFID tag on the object user interacted with. In general, KONARK has been shown to perform with reasonably high accuracy in different mobility speeds in a mock-up of a shopping mall isle.

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Konark: A RFID based System for Enhancing In-store Shopping Experience
1. Applied computing
  1. Electronic commerce
2. Human-centered computing

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