An Automated and Scalable Tool for Fingerprint based Biometric Attendance Management System

Fingerprint recognition is the most popular method in the biometric era due to its accuracy and uniqueness. Manually documenting and maintaining attendance on a sheet by queuing up in front of the class is a complicated and time-killing method. In this paper, we have proposed a biometric attendance management system that takes the attendance of the students and maintains the records in an educational institution in a real-time environment. The system consists of three stages- ‘enrollment’, ‘attendance’ & ‘data storage’. The process of fingers' enrollment and attendance reporting is performed using the fingerprint module. Using the SD Card module, student's attendance details are stored in a file. The system prevents the tendency of giving proxy which has become a bad trend nowadays.