NaviEyes: A Rapid Shopping Navigation System with On-Sale Purchase Planning Based on IoT Localization

This paper designs and implements a rapid shopping navigation system, called NaviEyes, to minimize shopping time and maximize purchasing success ratio for hypermarket customers through Internet of Things (IoT) localization. The NaviEyes system can provide a shopping trip with the shortest total moving time to purchase all desired products according the crowd density of each passageway/area. In addition, NaviEyes can plan the proper shopping order and fast moving paths between selected on-sale products to minimize the purchasing risk (i.e., one or more selected on-sale products sold out) through avoiding taking long moving time to purchase a selected product with sufficient instances. An Android-based prototype with video-based indoor localization is implemented to verify the feasibility and performance of our NaviEyes system.