Smart Attendance System

The current study delineates the design and development of a smart attendance system for students in schools or colleges for optimum utilization of the teaching-learning time. The proposed device is a biometric attendance recorder that uses the fingerprint sensor in conjunction with Arduino UNO. The device stored the fingerprint impressions of all the faculties and students of an institute through the process of enrolment. During the attendance, the registering fingerprint of students was matched with the enrolled database. In case of a match, the name of the student was registered in that device and sent wirelessly to an in-lab made Android application through Bluetooth protocol service. The Android application is only accessible by the authorized personnel to monitor the student attendance and to share for academic record. The device is highly secured as it can only be activated by the fingerprint recognition of the concerned authorized personnel (faculties). The device is low-cost, robust, portable and user-friendly. The device being handy and cheap gives an edge over the products that are currently available in the market. The device saves time in class, thus increases the valuable teaching learning time of teachers and students giving them greater opportunity to teach and learn respectively.