Online Attendance Management System Using RFID with Object Counter

Educational institutions’ administrators in our country and the whole world are concerned about regularity of student attendance. Student overall academic performance is affected by it. The conventional method of taking attendance by calling names or signing on paper is very time consuming, and hence inefficient. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based attendance system is one of the solutions to address this problem. A system that can automatically capture student’s attendance by flashing their student card at the RFID reader and save all the mentioned troubles was given by T.S.Lim et al. [1].The RFID system using web-based applications such as ASP.NET and IIS server to cater the recording and reporting of the students’ attendances was given by Abdul Aziz Mohammed et.al. [2]. Arulogun O. T. et al made an attempt to solve recurrent lecture attendance monitoring problem in developing countries using RFID technology [3]. Rajan Patel et al [4] presents the integration of ubiquitous computing systems into classroom for managing the students’ attendance using RFID technology. H.B. Hamid et al [5] gave a system that has been built using the web-based applications such as JSP, MySQL and Apache to cater the recording and reporting of the students’ attendances. NetBeans IDE 6.1 is used for developing the overall system. We have proposed the system in this paper using C#. Microsoft Visual Studio is used for the system designing. Also, the issue related to fake /false attendance through the RFID system has been addressed, we eliminate it by using a special object counter for the head count. Ankita Agrawal & Ashish Bansal 132