Smart Attendance System using RFID and Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Attendance is most important in schools, colleges and also in workplaces. In schools, colleges and educational institutions, attendance plays an important role. In educational institutions attendance is used to monitor student activity. Attendance is a key parameter which needs to be monitored which helps in visualizing the student progress in academics in day-to-day life. Attendance is helpful for parents who may notice their child going only to schools or college. In work places attendance plays a key role which enhances the work schedule and determines the workload of the employee and the contribution of the employee in his work. It is very mandatory to decide the salary of the employee based on the number of days he has worked. Logging down the attendance in institutions level is done by instructors, who are responsible to take attendance in each lecture hour. This mark down of attendance on an hourly basis is basically tedious work. In some academic regulations loss of attendance due to manual errors may result in mark reduction or attendance shortage may recorded. To automate the process of logging attendance in an autonomous way, this study has designed an efficient solution to log attendance each and every lecture hour without the intervention of the course instructor. The proposed system helps the educational institutions and instructors to focus on the academics rather than logging attendance manually.