Smart attendance system using RFID

This paper presents an inventive prototype design of attendance system which purposely used for lecturers in the class. This project is designed to develop a smart attendance system by using Radio-frequency identification (RFID). Nowadays, most of students tend to come to the class late. Besides, they also usually like to cheat to their lecturer by signing the attendance on behalf of their friends. The student who come late evenly have the same benefits as others because there will be no different for those who always came early to the class. The conventional attendance system has poor system which might be taking for granted by students. In order to resolve this problems, the design of smart attendance system will help to reduce all the problems occurred by conventional attendance system. This system would help the students and also lecturer to take attendance easily by improving the function of the student card. The students will scan their Radio-frequency identification Card (RFID) on the MIFARE RC522 RFID Kit which will be the reader for the card. The data will be kept in the data base in the Arduino (Uno) which is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328. The system will set the critical time for the student who attends the class late that will be displayed on the LCD display. After the scan completed, the output will be either two. There will be taken the record with good attendances or otherwise the record will list in red colour which means that the students come late more than fifteen minutes. Thus, it will reduce the problems occurred from conventional attendance system.