Attendance Tracking System Based On Contactless Smartcard

Abstract

Attendance for students in universities is important thus an attendance monitoring system is essential. The usual method for taking attendance is either by calling out student names or signing 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 noncontact Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and interconnection technology integration, combined with proximity readers, inductive card and point features on a single chip with a compatible device identification and data exchange. This application stores the attendance in the mobile internal database and the user can view and update the attendance whenever required. SQLite 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 need to tap their smart card to the lecturer’s smart device to sign in their attendance.