Examination hall access control system using Radio Frequency Identification

Conducting of examination is a crucial and complex job for most universities and at times this exercise comes with threads of security breaches and fraudulent activities. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to provide information about the design of an examination hall access control system as well as an Information Service System that is used by university institutions. The proposed technology aims to manage controlled and authorized access into examination halls, and to manage student's examination attendance records and to provide capabilities of monitoring student absentees during the examination process, as well as to provide supporting information services including but not limited to the provision of student examination timetable, examination attendance register, and examination attendance notifications. To minimize the safety and security concerns, as well as reducing the rate of corruption in the educational sector, an extensive research with a quantitative approach is undertaken and a time and motion study is conducted to identify the most time-efficient and robust examination hall access control technology. The time and motion study performed reveals that the implementation of this solution will reduce examination documentation efforts by 73% and decrease the time spent to manually grant access to students into examination halls by 35 seconds per student. This study shows that the proposed solution is time-effective, and the adoption of the examination hall access control technology will achieve lower threads of security breaches and fraudulent activities when compared to other technologies or manual paper-based processes.