Enhanced Biometric Based Attendance Module Interfaced with POS for an Academic Institution

This paper presents developed attendance register module for a smart campus. A convenient test on four courses was carried out on the register module for courses A, B, C and D for five lecture days. A total of twenty students were involved in the test. This module is a careful improvement of the previous SAMSYS module. The validation of attendance manually has become cumbersome, energy sapping and leads to waste of productive time. The academic attendance policy has continually insisted on the 70/30 % benchmark which has also provoked a lot of issues at various fora. The improvement provides for instant print out of attendance after class lectures and after examination periods. In the design, the PIC18F462 microcontroller has been used to achieve adequate results. Also, the PIC16F88 was used for the keyboard decoder to convert scan codes to ASCII character for the microcontroller. Adequate attendance security measures have also been put in place for effective attendance management. It showed better performance over the previous design.