Electronic Attendance Management System

摘要

One of the major problems in our educational institutions is the process of taking manual attendance which is very much time consuming. It is difficult to manually take and then maintain the attendance of such a large number of students efficiently in a school or a college. Also there is a greater possibility of providing a fake attendance by a student which is many a time inconvenient to figure out. Thus, there are various technologies available for developing a well organized attendance management system to minimize these issues. This includes Barcode, Smart card, Biometric and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. Out of them RFID is comparatively faster than barcode and smart card system and cheaper than biometric system. Thus, our main goal is to solve the problems by developing an Electronic Attendance Management System using RFID. RFID technology is an automatic wireless identification system that operates with the help of active and passive cards and a RFID reader. This system will help the concerned authority to manage the attendance system in a more organized, efficient and time saving manner. The proposed technique will be implemented in a prototype model. The applications using RFID are increasing nowadays and are being applied in various fields such as transportation, agriculture and industries. This is an identification technology used for retrieving or storing data using RFID tags without any physical contact. In order to be fully functional, the system is to be integrated with RFID database. The Electronic Attendance Management System will mark the attendance of individual students by using information extracted from the RFID database. This system will fetch the appropriate data from the RFID database in order to execute the attendance taking process.