RFID BASED ATTENDANCE SYSTEM
G.VIGNESH BABU , P.RAHUL GOWTHAM, K.V. KOTESWARA REDDY , ANUPAM DUBEY , AMIT KUMAR
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
SRM University,Kattankulathur
Chennai, India
Abstract In recent past, a rapid growth in the number of
applications based on Radio Frequency Identification(RFID)
systems and have been successfully applied to different areas
as diverse as transportation, health-care, agriculture, and
hospitality industry to name a few. RFID technology facilitates
automatic wireless identification using electronic passive and
active tags with suitable readers. In this paper, an attempt is
made to solve manual class attendance monitoring problem in
developing countries using RFID technology. The application
of RFID to student attendance monitoring as developed and
deployed in this study is capable of eliminating time wasted
during manual collection of attendance and an opportunity for
the educational administrators to capture face-to-face
classroom statistics for allocation of appropriate attendance
scores and for further decisions.
Key Words: RFID, Lecture, Attendance, Passive tag, Reader
.
I. INTRODUCTION
The availability of upper end high speed internet has provided
almost all the information, which causes the students to be less
interest in attending the classes in their working hours.
Laziness on the part of students, unconcerned to college work,
additional social activities that have no importance in aiding
the objectives of the institution and a lot more, may prevent
students from attending classes. Consequently, professors and
administrators in most developing countries have had to come
up with ways to ensure a healthy participation from students,
and make sure that the student-teacher interactive relationship
is kept intact. This in some cases have come in simple forms
like roll calls, while in more interesting cases, can be formats
like surprise quizzes, extra credit in class, etc. These strategies
are however time consuming, stressful and laborious because
the valuable lecture time that could otherwise been used for
lectures is dedicated to student attendance taking [8] and
sometimes not accurate. In addition to all these challenges, the
attendances are recorded manually by the tutor and therefore
are prone to personal errors. immunity to the environmental
noise. Another reason why ultrasonic is popular is that the
technology is relatively inexpensive, and also ultrasound
emitters and detectors are small enough to be carried without
the need for complex circuitry.
II. 2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
The primary purpose of an rfid system in this application area
is to detect the presence and absence of the student data to be
transmitted wirelessly by mobile device, called a tag, which is
read by an rfid reader and processed according to the
programmed instructions on the personal computer (pc). the
ease with which rfid can be integrated into current operations
depends on the openness and flexibility of the technology
infrastructure especially the pc that will be used to collect and
collate rfid data. the proposed system provides solution to
lecture attendance problem through coordinated hardware and
software design handshaking data communications between
rfid tag and rfid reader serially interfaced to the digital
computer system.
III. METHODOLOGY
A. Atmega
ATmega16 is an 8-bit high performance microcontroller of
Atmels Mega AVR family with low power consumption.
Atmega16 is based on enhanced RISC architecture with 131
powerful instructions. Most of the instructions execute in one
machine cycle. Atmega16 can work on a maximum frequency
of 16MHz. ATmega16 has 16 KB programmable flash
memory, static RAM of 1 KB and EEPROM of 512 Bytes.
The endurance cycle of flash memory and EEPROM is 10,000
and 100,000, respectively. ATmega16 is a 40 pin
microcontroller. There are 32 I/O lines which are divided into
four 8-bit ports designated as PORTA, PORTB, PORTC and
PORTD. ATmega16 has various in-built peripherals like
USART, ADC, Analog Comparator, SPI, JTAG etc. Each I/O
pin has an alternative task related to in-built peripherals. The
following table shows the pin description of ATmega16.
Fig. 1 Atmega
B. Rfid Module
Also known as transceivers when they both send and receive.
RFID tags do not need to containbatteries, and can therefore
remain usable for very long periods of time (maybedecades).
The scanning antennas can be permanently affixed to asurface;
handheld antennas are also available.

Pictorial diagram

E.WORKING PRINCIPLE

When this circuit is powered ON, initially the microcontroller will

Fig. 2 Rfid Module
C. SOFTWARE DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
In the development cycle of the system, decisions were made
on the parts of the system to be realized in the hardware
design and the parts to be implemented in software. The
software is decomposed into modules so that each module can
be individually tested as a unit and debugged before the
modules are integrated and tested as a software system in
order to ensure that the software design meets its specification
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display the message as Swipe the card on the pc display. When the
RFID reader detects the ID card, it will send the unique card no to the
microcontroller via serial terminal. With the help of suitable
programming, we need to compare the received card no. with the
numbers that are already stored in the microcontroller or any
database. Once, if any of these numbers are match with the received
card no., then the corresponding name stored in that no. is displayed
on the pc and also the attendance for the name stored in the
corresponding number is marked. By pressing the button, the
attendance recording will be closed and the details are displayed on
the pc repeatedly until the microcontroller has been reset.

D.SYSTEM OPERATION, TESTING AND DISCUSSION

A careful observation of the trend of usage of RFID tags leads
one to consider the possibility of its utilization for monitoring
the attendance of students in educational institutions, with the
aid of program driven computers. While every student given a
specific RFID tag attends the lecture through entrance door, a
serial number (related to each students matriculation number)
of tag is associated with the student database entry. So every
time a student uses his/her card, the entries will be entered into
the database with the time stamp. The use of webcam might be
optionally necessary to take a snap of the person using the
card. Webcam reduces proxy attendance attempts. This is used
to cross-verify in the event of an undesirable event or dispute.
Consequently, the attendance data then can be used to create
many types of reports like daily attendance details, monthly,
weekly and real time feedback to parents.

Fig. Fire Sensor Fig. Circuit diagram

 VI.CONCLUSION
With the proposed architecture, if constructed with at most
accuracy, the blind people will able to move from one place to
another without others help. If such a system is developed, it
will act as a basic platform for the generation of more such
devices for the visually impaired in the future which will be
cost effective. It will be real boon for the blind. The developed
prototype gives good results in detecting obstacles paced at
distance in front of the user. The solution developed is a
moderate budget navigational aid for the visually impaired.
However minimizing cost leads to compromises in
performance. It is advised that the design be improved before
commercial production.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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A.Anilet bala her valuable guidance, consistent encouragement,
personal caring, timely help and providing us with an excellent
atmosphere for doing research. All through the work, in spite of her
busy schedule, she has extended cheerful and cordial support to us for
completing this project work.