Attendance System Using NFC Technology with Embedded Camera on Mobile Device

Abstract

In most of the university and colleges attendance of students is important factor, checking student attendance is the important issues because all universities evaluate student's attendance while them giving final grade. Some colleges use paper sheet for student attendance and after that fill all this information manually in college server. This all are time consuming process like calling particular student then fill all information, and student give the proxies of their friends even they absent. By considering all this issue we develop one system which get attendance and update attendance in one place. Our paper presents near field communication technology to get the attendance of students in school and colleges. The system is based on NFC Technology and run on mobile as application, this paper presented details of this system. Keyword: attendance, near field communication, android OS, embedded mobile camera I. INTRODUCTION This paper introduces a Near Field Communication (NFC) supported collage attendance system for college students. In the most of collages lecturer take attendance by calling out the names and surnames of students and then marking them or pass the attendance sheet to students and asking students to sign in attendance sheet. This both practices have their drawbacks. In first case if strength of students are more, checking all these student by name and surname might take about several minutes. In second case if student is absent then friends of absent students may write down their name and surnames. These practices place college institutions at considerable disadvantages when it comes to taking attendance. To come out from all these issues we put NFC tag into service. Each tag has a unique ID, precluding the duplication of a tag. These NFC tag are given to students when they registered in college. When student enter in class rooms and touch or move these tag on lecturer mobile phone, NFC readers program will read these tags, identify the students from their respective NFC tag and embedded camera will capture the face of particular student then application send all the data to college server and in server side validation program will check the data for validation (compare new data with previous data which was already store in database) if valid data found then program will update the database as marking attendance otherwise mark student is absent. These all done with one system no manual working this means no class time will be wasted.