Attendance Tracking System Based On Contactless Smart Card1

Abstract

Attendance for students in universities is important thus an attendance monitoring system is essential. UniKL-BMI usual method for taking attendance is either calling out student names or signature in attendance sheet. The conventional method will consume time in order get the student attendance, resulting in a reduction of actual teaching time. In order to save the time and also avoiding fake attendance, an Android app that uses Near Field Communication (NFC) is developed. NFC technology is the evolution of non-contact Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and interconnection technology integration from, combined with proximity readers, inductive card and point features on a single chip, can in short distance inside with a compatible device identification and data exchange. This application stores the attendance in the mobile internal database and the faculty can view and update the attendance whenever required. SQLite and MySQL will be used in this project for database support and logging the student attendance. Database will contain the students information such as their name, unique ID, student ID and etc. The apps will be running on NFC able smartphone or tablet where students just tap their smart card to the lecturer’s smart device to sign in their attendance.