Z.Cart – Smart Shopping Cart
Scan, pay and go — right from the cart.
A smart shopping cart that recognizes products, weighs items, takes payments and personalizes offers.
Checkout is the worst part of shopping.
Customers wait in queues, retailers lack in-store behaviour data and promotions rarely match what shoppers actually want.
The checkout comes to the cart.
Z.Cart uses four cameras and barcode scanning to recognize products, integrated weight sensors for items sold by weight, an on-cart M-POS and contactless payments, plus a companion app and behavioural analytics for personalized offers.
Technical detailsIntegrated with the store.
Works with existing retail software over Wi-Fi.
The smart cart in detail.
The Smart Dash Cart is designed to revolutionize the shopping experience by integrating advanced technology with user-friendly features, enhancing both customer satisfaction and retail operations.
- Four precision cameras for detecting and recognizing products
- Barcode scanning for quick, accurate item registration
- Integrated weight sensors for products sold by weight
- LCD screen guiding the user through the shopping journey
- Multicoloured LED lights and speakers for real-time feedback and alerts
- Card-present: embedded M-POS accepts card payments directly on the cart
- Card-not-present: NFC, e-wallets and online payment methods
- Wi-Fi integration with existing market software and merchant systems
- Companion mobile app synced with the cart, from home or in-store
- Behavioural analysis with personalized promotions and recommendations from shopping history
Hardware highlights.
The people behind it.
A multidisciplinary team of engineers, researchers and domain experts.
More from this project.
Visuals of the system and its components.
Scaling for broader impact.
We are preparing in-store pilots with retail partners.
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