RFID Based Attendance Monitoring System with LED Authentication

Most institutional authorities are concerned by the laborious process of manually tracking staff attendance. Many applications on web and mobile have been deployed but still many manual signings attendance record exists at non-internet connections environment which documentation takes a long time and risky. The problem is some attendance records were missing while staff indicated that they have log in. Thus, an attendance monitoring using RFID has been proposed. This research has designed an RFID-based attendance tracking system that uses an RFID card to uniquely identify each employee or student’s attendance with LED authentication. The method to develop the system is comprised of hardware and software components such as RFID cards, RFID reader model RC522, buzzer, and LED. Users’ attendance record is collected whereby users touch the RFID card on the RFID reader. Data for three different locations was collected and analysed. Result has identified that the RFID system is faster in 20 seconds which is 80% performance compared to manual attendance. This study is significant for attendance reporting which is automatically synchronized with a real-time clock and the attendance records is more accurate and would help the administration monitor the staff attendance at the non-internet connections environment.