Biometric fingerprint authentication for student attendance system / Siti Nur Hidayah Mohd Yusoff

Attendance taking and recording is a method that has been use widely across the world in order to detect whether a person is present or absent at an event. However, the traditional attendance recording method is not suitable to be use in this time and day anymore as it is time consuming, inconvenience and can be manipulate as well. Therefore, recording attendance by using Fingerprint Authentication is a better way to record attendance. This is because the level of accuracy is very high as the human fingerprint is unique and no other individual in this world share the same fingerprint as the other. Therefore, the results cannot be plagiarize or fabricated. This authentication method was developed using C++ programming language with Arduino as it microcontroller. This system uses matching mechanism to recognize the student’s identity. Students will place their fingerprint on the scanner and their fingerprint will be compare with the pre-recorded fingerprint in the cloud storage. Once the fingerprint match, the student’s attendance for the day will be recorded and the current status will be updated inside the cloud storage. The student’s personal details such as their name, matric number as well as their class would be display at the small LED screen connected to the device once their current attendance status has been updated in the cloud storage.