A Review of Attendance Management Systems

Abstract

Abstract. This paper reviews attendance management systems (AMS). An AMS (semi) automatically identifies the students in the classroom and makes report on attendees and absentees. A biometrics-based AMS identifies students by reading fingerprints or irises. A radio-frequency-identification (RFID)-based AMS recognizes a student by reading the unique RFID carried by the student. Each recognition method has some advantages and disadvantages. The most common disadvantage of AMSs is that special devices are required. For example, a RFID-based AMS requires RFID readers. After investigating existing AMSs, this paper proposes an AMS that does not require any additional devices as long as every student carries a smartphone and the wireless local network is available in the classroom.

A Proposal for an Economic Attendance Management System

“…During the former phase, the following operations are performed [12]: 1) For each access point (AP), assign a name indicating where the AP is installed as the service set identifier (SSID) of it, so that the name of the classroom where the router is installed can be automatically extracted. For example, if an AP is installed in "L101" classroom, then "L401" is assigned to the SSID of it.…”

“…3) Build a database to store relationships between smartphones, students, routers, and classes [12].…”

“…Every student and teacher must have a smartphone running this mobile app. The process of the attendance check phase consists of the following activities [12]:…”

“…This application offers a menu where students can specify the classroom they are attending as shown in Figure 3. A menu where the secret code can be typed in is also provided [12]. …”