Example Academic Research Section

3.1 Academic Research

In addition to researching comparable products in the market, the researcher has also carried out
some research on academic journals to support the reason for including fingerprint technology in
the solution system.
3.2 Research Relevance
The researcher has investigated a number of systems which are available in the market and also
some academic scholars who implemented fingerprint technology to resolve authentication related
problems. All the systems in Table 3.1 do offer good solutions for hotel management, however, none
of the systems are offering fingerprint authentication. In short, with these systems, the customers
still need the physical keys to access the rooms. The focus of this project is to computerise the hotel
management system, and also to replace the physical keys with fingerprint authentication, therefore
the researcher has found some academic journals which are relevant to fingerprint technology. For
example, the journals with the title ‘Designing a Biometric Strategy (Fingerprint) Measure for
Enhancing ATM Security in Indian E-Banking System’ and ‘Finger Print Enabled Electronic Voting
Machine with Enhanced Security’ have shown that fingerprint technology has been deployed to
improve security of the banking and voting systems. With these evidences, the researcher believes
that fingerprint technology is a reliable tool to authenticate identification.