Implementing Student Attendance System Using Fingerprint Biometrics for Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech Mara

Abstract

Recording students’ attendance has been a major concern at Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech Mara. However, monitoring the attendance manually is a cumbersome issue to lecturers as students tend to manipulate the attendance by signing each other’s attendance. It has been found that fingerprint biometrics is capable to monitor the attendance systematically and efficiently. The aim of this study is to verify the students’ attendance using fingerprint biometrics. Evolutionary prototyping model were used to develop the students’ attendance system. Students are required to thumbprint using the fingerprint device installed in the classroom to record the students’ attendance. Their fingerprint images were captured by the fingerprint device and the images were then registered to the server for attendance process. The implementation of fingerprint biometric has helped lecturers to monitor the attendance of the students more systematic, efficient and ethically. By using the system embedded with biometrics, reporting on absenteeism is genuine and easy. Lecturers just need to print out and do necessary action. Therefore, fingerprint biometrics is useful and helpful in keeping track and managing the attendance of the students.

Systematic Literature Review: Biometric Technology Applied to Educational Institutions

“…One of the most used formulas to achieve excellent academic performance is the attendance to classes by students, so to validate their presence in the classroom, it is necessary to control the integrity of the attendance record of students through an appropriate procedure that checks and manages the attendance data [1], which currently, is manual in many schools, such as universities, which leads to errors such as miscalculating the number of attendances, wasted time in collecting attendance data, false attendances, filling out the attendance list is prone to student fraud [2], among others, are recurrent problems when the attendance control process is carried out manually, this not only affects the final decision-making of an institution, as one study found a significant relationship between attendance and students' academic performance [3]; monitoring and managing attendance is essential, therefore, to assist staff interacting with the attendance monitoring process, it needs to be improved [4].…”