ATTENDANCE MONITORING

SYSTEM USING RFID

MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
Students irregular attendance is of concern to the teaching faculty. Truancy
can affect a students overall academic performance. Taking attendance by roll call or
signing on paper is very time consuming and insecure. Therefore, a computer-based
student attendance monitoring system is required to assist the lecturer for this time-
consuming process, and to avoid truancy.
Our project aims to develop Attendance Monitoring System Using Radio-frequency
identification (RFID) Technology which could effectively monitor attendance of the
students at Multimedia University. Attendance is marked after student identification.
For student identification, an RFID reader will be attached to the wall at the entrance
of the class room and it will scan the student ID card. When the student ID is placed
into the RFID reader, it scans and sends the unique card numbers to the lecturers
smartphone via Bluetooth. An Android mobile application is developed and installed
in the lecturers smartphone. This application will establish a Bluetooth connection
with the RFID reader and the lecture logs into the system to monitor the students
attendance. The application then will synchronize the data with the main servers
database via Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) connection. A website is developed to view the
students attendance for a specific class, to update the attendance for any student who
did not attend the class with valid reason, and to get the potential barring list and the
confirmed barring list.

Hasan Mohammed Hussein Al-Salahi
Faculty of computing and informatics
Multimedia University
2014