Intelligent IoT Shelf Design and Development

The purpose of this paper is to present the design and development of an intelligent shelf system, which is capable to measure the weight and can define the number of items placed on it. The hardware and software components are presented detailed. The system uses load cells to measure the weight. The designed and developed electronic data acquisition module uses wireless communication to transmit the data received from the load cells. On the server side the data packets are received and processed by a custom UDP server and for data storage the system uses a MySQL database. A web application developed considering PHP language and Laravel framework is used to interact between the users and the database. The presented prototype system is a proof of concept solution for big stores with heavy traffic to follow and manage the number of products on stock in real time.