Commodity identification and navigation system in supermarkets.

Abstract

In Uganda today, the average time wasted by supermarket clients to identify the exact location of the desired commodity and navigate to it is definitely plenty. The customer searches for the required commodities through the different aisles to various sections, others keep inquiring from the supermarket workers where the commodities of their interest are located which compromises their privacy and convenience during their shopping. Some customers also keep following the writing of the different categories of commodities in the supermarket. Therefore, the system developed enables the customer to easily know the location of the commodity and navigate to it. The system consists of an application installed on a smart phone which enables search and navigation for the location of the desired commodity in the shopping arena. The customer moves to the section, and he picks the desired commodity. The information is stored in the system's database which include the commodity location mapped and the different commodity categories’. The system performance is fairly good and reliable, the greatest challenge in the system functionality is the network reliability and accuracy.