International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 154 - Number 1 |
Year of Publication: 2016 |
Authors: M. J. E. Fernando, S. S. Shurane, L. S. Wijesinghe, N. M. Thenuwara, D. Dhammearatchi |
10.5120/ijca2016912020 |
M. J. E. Fernando, S. S. Shurane, L. S. Wijesinghe, N. M. Thenuwara, D. Dhammearatchi . Pick My Dress: Beacon based Navigation System to find your Suitable Wear. International Journal of Computer Applications. 154, 1 ( Nov 2016), 16-20. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016912020
Retailing has become a major part of busy current lifestyle when it comes to every single event of people’s lives. When considering retail purposes clothing shops, shopping malls and retail boulevards come into the play. Usually it is a vast area with lots of people, shops, goods and paths which makes the area looks more and more complex. Since the time has become the major barrier of their lives, people are willing to have everything done at their fingertips more quickly and without any hard attempt. In a vastarea of single clothing shop customers face difficulties in finding their preferable items in a certain time. Though it is a new shop or a well-known shop which he/she usually visits, with the busy time period they are already dealing with makes the situation unnecessarily complex and confusing. Correct paths to the preferred item are sometimes hard to find because of the immensecrowd and area which anyway give them a hard time. There are several difficulties customers are experiencing when matching the clothes they are trying to buy, these difficulties are briefly explained in this document. For the people who are already in a war with their time, do not want to spend their precious time and effort to get an idea about the similar items or matching items to the item they selected, ‘Pick My Dress’ application will let peoples to get over from those issues. In other hand, clothing shop owners can get more benefits out of this application to promote their shops all over the country. Having a mobile application which will do all the shopping, matching dresses and navigation facility to find dress items in one single screen, helps shop owners to get more attraction of customers. To move forward with modern developing technology, cloths shop owners can use this new application which will bring cloth shopping into a new different level. The system uses BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) for its implementation process with the aid of Beacons and stickers. Therefore the ‘Pick My Dress’ mobile application has been able to answer all those current issues mentioned above by helping the customers in their retailing purposes.