Mobile point of sale design and implementation

Abstract

Mobile POS is a portable computer device that is used especially as POS (Point of Sales) purpose and it is link to input and output device such as barcode scanner and thermal printer, installed with special software for POS. This paper is a proposed two types design of implementation Mobile Point of Sale (MPOS), which are using Mini PC Raspberry Pi and Smartphone Android OS. Both solution passed the functional test and the comparison between both is performed, which is shows that Raspberry Pi has more economical solution but more difficult to be developed, less comfort and less friendly use than Android Smart Phone based implementation.