Abstract:
Attendance Management is a major part of today’s human resource systems; take
organization towards better human resource practice, systems and excellence, hence
regular attendance and punctuality are expected of all employees or candidates in a work
setting. Unsatisfactory attendance caused by unscheduled absences and tardiness caused a
disruption in work, affects productivity, and creates morale problems. Fingerprints are
considered to be the best and fastest method for biometric identification. The reason for the
popularity of fingerprint verification is that fingerprints satisfy uniqueness, stability,
permanency and easily taking. In this paper aims at designing a student attendance system
using fingerprint technology in a university environment which could effectively manage
attendance of students. The system includes terminal fingerprint acquisition module and
attendance module. It can realize automatically such functions as information acquisition of
fingerprint, processing, and wireless transmission, fingerprint matching and making an
attendance report. After taking the attendance, this system sends the attendance of every
student to their parent’s mobile through GSM. Biometrics refers to the automatic
identification of a person based on his or her physiological or behavioral characteristics. This
system eliminates the need for stationary materials and personnel for the keeping of records.
