Prototype of College Student Attendance Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) at Musamus University

Abstract

Student attendance in the classroom is one indicator for lecturers in learning activities. At Musamus University, student attendance has been managed digitally. The system is known as SIMAKAD. The weakness of SIMAKAD in doing attendance is in the process of entering data. Student attendance data can be inputted by the lecturer after completing the manual signature process by students. This can cause errors in entering data into the system. Whereas in the industrial revolution of the 4.0 era, the transformation of digital data in education was needed. For example, with the presence of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The student attendance prototype using RFID was designed as a solution to solve problems in entering student attendance data at SIMAKAD. RFID technology can identify each student while attending college through reading the student TAG ID. By adding Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, the results of reading student IDs will be sent directly through the internet and stored in a database server. The database can be directly used by lecturers as monitoring attendance of lectures. So no need to use manual absence.

In-Classroom Faculty Attendance Monitoring System based on Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) with Captured Image Cross-verification Mechanism

“…But even though the vast majority of attendance monitoring solutions embodied in various studies utilized RFID technology, they commonly used the RC522 reader which has only 3cm read range with operating frequency of 13.56 Megahertz. (3)(4)(5)(6)(7) Given that specifications, it will require at least a tap to the reader for the tag to be identified. Moreover, one issue with using the RFID technology is the lack of security features to prevent fraud, which is emphasized in similar studies conducted on Internet of Things based smart attendance monitoring system using RFID.…”

“…Moreover, one issue with using the RFID technology is the lack of security features to prevent fraud, which is emphasized in similar studies conducted on Internet of Things based smart attendance monitoring system using RFID. (3)(4)(5) and the prototype of college student attendance using RFID at Musamus University conducted by Putra et al (6) The solutions they have presented were excellent in identifying RFID tags, however, when using RFID technology, you can only verify if the tag matches a record in the database but it cannot verify whether or not the cardholder is really the person associated with the tag in the database. https://www.indjst.org/ Aside from RFID technology other attendance monitoring systems used Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons for proximity sensing to transmit a universally unique identifier picked up by a compatible app installed on the teachers' smartphone.…”