RFID BASED ATTENDANCE

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
ABSTRACT
Attendance needs to be taken at various places including colleges, school for
students and in the industries for the login logout time of employees. Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) based attendance management system can be
used in any college or university or company. Main objective of RFID based
Attendance System project is to take the attendance of students or employees.
Microcontroller does the task of storing the attendance of the respective person
in the Microcontroller memory.The existing attendance system is manual and it
is taken on paper and it consumes lot of time. As we aware that many traditional
Attendance system uses attendance register to note down the attendance. It
has less accuracy. Also the administrative person needs to maintain the
attendance papers / sheets. In many industries attendance register is used to note
down the attendance of their employees. In school attendance is taken on roll
call musters and in colleges attendance is taken by respective professors.
Problem with existing attendance system is that wrong attendance can be
entered. For example, in an industry, employee can enter invalid/incorrect login
logout time. They can come at 10am and can enter time as 8 am. Also in
colleges one student can give proxy attendance of another student. Probability
of this is very less but it does happen.

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MOTIVATION
In most universities, teachers take attendance by calling out the names and
surnames of students, and then marking them, while, in others, teachers pass
around a sheet of paper, asking students to sign in attendance sheet just next to
their surnames. Both practices have their drawbacks. In the first case, if
numerous groups attend the lesson, checking all of these students by name and
surname might take about 10 minutes out of each lesson; in the second case,
friends of absent students may write down their names and surnames. These
practices place university teachers and their institutions at considerable
disadvantages when it comes to taking attendance. To rectify these systematic

failings, we have decided to put the RFID-card into service. Each card has a
unique ID, precluding the duplication of a card.These RFID-cards are given to
students , and while entering classrooms, RFID readers will read these cards,
identify the students from their respective RFID-cards and send the data to a
PC. The PC, in turn, sends all the data it has collected to the server by the end of
lesson, or at the end of this day according to the preference of lecturer. This
means no class time will be wasted.