I-Attendance System: implementation of student attendance system using fingerprint

In an educational institution, attendance procedure plays an important role. Due to the many students in a class, monitoring attendance is time-consuming and prone to errors. Teachers may require aid differentiating between students with similar names or may not hear their name called and wrongly designate a student absent. Students often help missing friends by raising their hands, writing on the attendance sheet, or sharing the Google Form. An automated fingerprint attendance system using biometrics to ease the attendance process at an institution called the I-Attendance System has been proposed to overcome those problems that are being faced. This was a mechanism we developed for Saint International School to address issues such as teachers having to call out students' names during the class period repeatedly. The primary objectives are to create a fingerprint authentication system for tracking students' attendance to replace the current manual approach with an automated one and to create data visualization based on the data recorded from the attendance system for a better understanding of the information gathered and stored. Cost and portability are two main reasons fingerprint attendance systems are less widely used to track students' whereabouts in and out of school. However, I-Attendance could be had for a low cost and installed with no difficulties, which increases its potential for commercialization. This project is fully sponsored by Jabatan Pengajian Politeknik dan Kolej Komuniti (JPPKK) in applying for the Intellectual Property Filing from the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia MyIPO. The IP Filing Number is LY2022P04663. This project uses a real-time fingerprint attendance system, Visual Studio for data editing and storage, and Microsoft Power BI for data analysis. This project monitors time in and out of students which encourages students to be on time, reduces attendance recording time, and visualizes and analyzes attendance data. This project will develop a graphical, user-friendly system. This initiative stops attendance from affecting academic achievement.