The Student Attendance Controlling by Using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) to Increase the Time Optimization and Accurate of Data

Abstract

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a wireless technology which uses to a purpose of identifying and tracking an object via radio waves to transfer data from an electronic tag, called RFID tag. In this paper, the using of RFID for an accurate student attendance tracking controlling is developed. Integrated with an Arduino Uno microcontroller and sensor to read student's RFID tags. Each tag contains a unique identity (ID) that mapped to a single student ID in the database. We have tested in classroom of Computer Science Department, Universitas Sumatera Utara. The result shows that the average total time taken to record the attendance of a class with 50 students are around 40 seconds, compared to approximately 200 seconds (3.33 minutes) total time when using a conventional method. The system also able to record effectively with no error during our test.