Design & Development of Smart Attendance Logger System

Abstract

Attendance management system in form of the attendance logging is one of the important requirements in any academic organization. The traditional attendance management system in which mentor has to take attendance manually and keep the record for the same manually. Some of the traditional attendance management system is based on the RFID, in which RFID tag is required which is not cost effective. The proposed system is smart attendance logging system in which system can mark the presence and absence of the person and keep the record for the same. The suggested system is also consist of real time clock device which also update the time in form of day, month, year and hour, minute and second. The system can also keep the record of the attendance as a backup of about one month. The system can store the presence of about more than one twenty users. The suggested system is handheld device which is portable with battery backup feature, so it will not consume much time to take attendance one by one. The whole system is design on the arduino platform along with fingerprint sensor, real time clock device, LCD and external memory as EEPROM. The system is compatible with the Microsoft Excel for logging the record of presence.