Introduction
We have seen over the years that the process of manual attendance has been carried out across almost all educational institutions. The process is not only time consuming but also sometimes inefficient resulting in the false marking of attendance. Today, we need not maintain pen and paper based attendance registers. Following this thought, we have proposed an attendance monitoring system based on the concept of web services which is implemented as a/an Smart/Android phone application that communicates with the database residing on a remote server. The mobile would require connecting to the database using either General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) of Wi-Fi technology. In addition, our proposed project has a face recognition which will make the system easy to use.
Our project is an efficient and user friendly Smart/Android phone application for an Attendance Monitoring. The application will be installed on the user’s (teacher’s) smart phone. It intends to provide an interface to the teacher who will take a photo of the students and the system analyses the image and will prompt a message viewing all the present students based on the taken image. Apart from that, the application would support strong user authentication and quick transmission of data via web service. Teachers will log in to the phone application and get connected to the server. After login, they will take attendance using the mobile phone’s build in camera.
In this application, the student can also registered with their name, course and year, and their latest photo. If the student wants to see the attendance then they can see it by the application or the website, after entering correct login details. Students who are not present at the picture will be mark absent.
Teachers can also upload/send any notice through the mobile which is visible to the student by their own smart phones. Teachers can also edit the attendance by login to the website.
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