Abstract—Attendance
checking can be tedious as there are hundreds or even thousands of students to
be checked every day whether they attend class or not and instances where
checking attendances manually just makes it worse. This design aims to create a
method of checking the attendances of students withoutthe use of the
traditional pen and paper method. The design made use of the RFID tags within
the school ID of the students,Raspberry Pi as the processing unit of the
system, and an android application that operates the entire system. The results
include successes in the functionalities of the design including registration
of students and checking of the attendance itself. It can be concluded that the
design’s effectiveness enables the professor to check the attendance of the
students without the use of the pen and paper method. Click Here Keywords—Attendance
checking, RFID, Raspberry Pi, Android Application, Pen and Paper Method
INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1)
Recording the attendance of all the students in each
class is one of the jobs of a professor. Professors usually check the
attendance of their students using the traditional manual method, this includes
the use of excel or other applications intheir mobile devices to check the
attendance [1]. Doing this everyday often leads to incorrect records because
they handle a lot of classes, imagine the burden of collecting those attendance
papers every class and every day and compiling them at the end of term to
encode it. Often times they misplaceor lose the paper that contains the
attendance of their class. Compiling the attendance list is also a problem for
them. Compiling and encoding the attendance of their classes proves to be
tedious and cumbersome. So in some cases, they encode all of the attendance at
the end of term, but to be able to do that they need to compile all the papers
that contains the attendance of all of their classes. Imagine the burden of
goingthrough all the papers and recording them one by one. Professors usually
check the attendance of their classes using Microsoft excel. This is usually
done on a laptop or a laboratory desktop. Some professors use their handheld
devices like their smartphones or tablets to check the attendance.
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Since the professors need to check
their lists one by one, this method is susceptible to errors. It is both
time-consumingand prone to human errors resulting to incorrect records. A
similar study has been conducted by Gamboa et, al. (2015), which states that
with the school’s growing number of students, checking of student I.D along
with the employees takes too much time and hard work, since the guards will
have to check each person in the school gate to make sure that they have their
IDs with them, and the security is lenient, since the guards only check if the
students or employees are wearing an ID before they enter the premises without
confirmation if the ID really belongs to that person. Therefore, the client is
in need of a system that will update the institution’s ID system for automated
identification, attendance, and security purposes. Listed beloware the features
the client wants the system to perform for this design; the system must be able
to record and show data such as the timestamps of student and faculty, and
remarks; the client also wants their school ID and employee ID as a means of
attendance to the school premises; the client wants a systemGUI that shows the
Student Picture, Year Level, Remarks; the system must be portable that can be
moved from one place to another[2]. A queuing problem particularly for large
class or participants may occur and is the main statement of the problem of the
study for attendance checking proposed by Jun Iio which consists of a mobile
device and web application. During the lecture, students may register their
attendance intothe mobile device passed around using their signature or picture
of oneself. At the end of the period, registration data is sent to the database
server and generates an attendance report[3]. Late submission of assessment
evaluation forms which includes students' attendance is a problem at a certain
university laboratory. Students’ attendance are still checked manually which is
time consuming and tedious.
A paper written by Arbain, Norakmar et. al, (2014)
decribes a web-based Laboratory Attendance System (LAS) that utilize RFID and
Arduino technology. The hardware system is implemented using RFID devices with
Arduino UNO microcontroller board that can detect the unique ID in the
student card and then print the information of the student on LCD panel of the
system devices. For the software system, a web-based application is design to
provide an interface for user to manage the attendance and laboratory modules
such as grading, upload and download contents[4]. The Muffin project proposed
and conducted by Čisar,Sanja Maravić et. al, (2016). It makes use of a mobile
application on the students' devices, and Arduino Uno board with Bluetooth
module and a desktop application.
The basic idea is that when students want to
log in their attendance, all they need to do is send some log in data from the
mobile application to the Arduino board, which is then forwarded to the desktop
application. The use of Bluetooth technology prevents students from logging in
outside the classroom[5]. Different studies incorporated the use of different
technologies specially RFID for an attendance system. Collection of information
through the RFID is also used in thisstudy but data gathering, storage and
monitoring is done using one component which is the Raspberry Pi. An option of
using the Android smartphone application may be used in monitoring and output
display.
