RFID-BASED STUDENTS ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM

ABSTRACT:

In recent years, there have been rise in the number of applications based on Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) systems and have been successfully applied to different areas as diverse
as transportation, health-care, agriculture, and hospitality industry to name a few. RFID
technology facilitates automatic wireless identification using electronic passive and active
tags with suitable readers. In this paper, an attempt is made to solve recurrent lecture
attendance monitoring problem in developing countries using RFID technology. The
application of RFID to student attendance monitoring as developed and deployed in this
study is capable of eliminating time wasted during manual collection of attendance and an
opportunity for the educational administrators to capture face-to-face classroom statistics for
allocation of appropriate attendance scores and for further managerial decisions.

Some students do not come to classroom due to one reason or the other and because of this
they do not perform well in their examination, so there is need to monitor student attendance
in the classroom to enhance their academic performance. The manual method of taking
attendance in schools and colleges over the years has become a thing of concern. In the
manual method of taking attendance students are required to write down their names and sign
the attendance list. The problems associated with this method vary from unnecessary time
wastage to improper documentation, students forgetting to put down their names on the
attendance list or students writing on behalf of other students that are absent from the class.
To eradicate the deficiencies associated with the manual attendance system, an automated
approach is implemented through Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The
RFID based automatic attendance system includes the RFID reader, RFID tags, computer
system, and host system application. The RFID based automatic attendance system is used
for automatically taking students.
Block Diagram:

Power
Supply

16 X 2 LCD

MICRO
CONTROLLER

RFID MAX 232

Reader

Hardware:
1) AT89s52
2) Power supply components
3) MAX 232
4) RFID Reader and Tags
5) LCD
Software:
1) Keil Micro vision IDE
2) Flash Magic
3) Proteus simulation Tool