DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC ATTENDANCE RECORDING SYSTEM

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC ATTENDANCE RECORDING SYSTEM

Attendance is a crucial factor that is used in many academic institutions and organizations for a variety of purposes. These goals include maintaining records, evaluating students, and encouraging optimal and regular attendance in class.
Because of the numerous difficulties the current system of taking attendance presents, most institutions in developing countries have not complied with the minimum percentage of attendance policy. For taking student attendance, the traditional method uses books or sheets of paper. The attendance sheet could be taken or misplaced using this method, and impersonation is a real possibility. It takes a long time to take attendance, and it is challenging to determine how many students have achieved the required percentage, The problem would be solved by a biometric attendance management system. Software designed for daily student attendance in schools and other institutions is known as an attendance management system. It makes it easier to access information about a specific student’s attendance in a specific class. This system will also assist in creating reports and determining a student’s eligibility for attendance.
Individuals will pass their thumb over the fingerprint scanner instead of signing an attendance sheet. The fingerprint is compared to a list of previously registered users, and if a match is made, the person is registered as having attended that lecture.
The paper highlights the general overview of the proposed system, highlights related works in the problem domain, and details design considerations of the system.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 

In most institutions today, the traditional system is still primarily utilized in the lecture hall or exam room. A sheet of paper with a list of students’ names will be distributed by the lecturer or instructor for them to sign, or in some cases, the students will be the ones to write their names, student IDs, and matriculation numbers to indicate their presence for a particular class. Falsification of student attendance is rife in the conventional approach.
For instance, it would be simple for one student to sign another student’s attendance. It is necessary to create an authentication system for students that uses fingerprint biometric recognition in order to track and maintain each student’s attendance in a particular class in order to avoid this issue.

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 

The study’s goal is to design and create a student attendance management system based on fingerprints that is dependable, scalable, and economical. The following goals are to be met in order to accomplish this:
I To conduct an analysis of the manual procedures used to track attendance for classes and exams.
(ii) To create a new system for the I previously mentioned

(iii) Making use of Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to put the plan into action.

1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

By utilizing fingerprint biometrics, the System for Students will do away with paper-based manual signing procedures and all associated risks. One drawback of taking attendance in class on paper is that it can be easily lost, and students may falsify their attendance by signing for each other who isn’t actually in the room. It can be difficult, time-consuming, and error-prone to track and monitor students’ attendance. As a result, the System will significantly cut down on the time needed to verify attendance data.
The system also enables management of the institution to monitor or look into student attendance in a particular course that has low attendance, allowing management to address the issue by implementing the required interventions.

1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 

The goal of this work is to create an attendance management system that will make it easier to track students’ attendance by using their fingerprints as a form of authentication. Microsoft Visual Basic.net will be used as the system’s preferred programming language for creating the user interface, and Microsoft Access will be used for creating the database. The system will be a window-based application. Other biometric facets are not covered.

1.6 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

The roughness in the images that are captured, which is frequently brought on by worn-out or cut or dirty fingerprints, can reduce the scanner’s efficiency. As a result, the system has a very real chance of rejecting enrolled users. Additionally, the scanner or sensor cannot tell the difference between a real finger and a fake finger, making it possible to trick the scanner. Additionally, because user finger biometric, it is not possible to change a fingerprint if it has been copied or forged, unlike in the case of a password. The system will only be able to run on Microsoft Windows operating systems because it will be designed using Visual Basic.net.

1.7 DEFINITION OF BASIC CONCEPTS

Biometrics are physiological or behavioral traits that are specific to an individual. Examples include voice, iris, veins, handwriting, hand geometry, and fingerprints.
Individual identification number (PIN).
Biometric Verification is the process of identifying an individual through the evaluation of one or more distinctive biological traits.
A scanner is a tool used to examine, read, or monitor a specific object.
An electronic tool called a fingerprint sensor is used to take a digital image of the fingerprint pattern.
The idea behind rapid application development is that products can be created more quickly and with higher quality.
The process of confirming that someone or something is, in fact, who or what it claims to be is known as authentication.