Open AccessAttendance Management System using Radio Frequency Identification Technology
Author(s) -
Abayomi O. Agbeyangi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
aptikom journal on computer science and information technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2528-2425
pISSN - 2528-2417
DOI - 10.11591/aptikom.j.csit.70
Subject(s) - attendance , radio frequency identification , computer science , identification (biology) , reading (process) , software , component (thermodynamics) , microcontroller , management system , multimedia , computer security , computer hardware , operating system , engineering , operations management , botany , thermodynamics , physics , political science , law , economics , biology , economic growth
Educational institutions' administrators are mostly concerned about student irregular attendance coupled with the tendency of impersonation among students. The old method of taking attendance by calling names or signing on paper is time-consuming and not secure. In this paper, the development of a RFID (radio frequency identification)-based attendance management system that handled attendance taking seamlessly via the use of RFID cards is presented. The complete system is made up of a hardware and software part. The hardware was implemented using a Microcontroller and RFID reader as the main component while the Attendance Management application was implemented using C# programming language and MySQL for the database. The results gathered during the testing showed that the system performs excellently and scored 93% on accurate reading of RFID cards. The developed system is seen to have eliminated the bottlenecks associated with manual attendance taking and its application is not limited to tertiary institution.