Fingerprint verification over the network and its application in attendance management

In recent years biometrics has been widely used for recognition of individuals and access control. Among the different biometric technologies, fingerprint verification has been the most dominant in commercial applications due to its distinctiveness, persistence and accuracy. In this paper we introduce verification of fingerprints over the network and its usage in maintaining attendance. In addition to this, automatically generated reports are updated on the internet and emailed to the teachers for future correspondence. A Short Message Service (SMS) is also sent to the parent's mobile phones in case of short attendance of students. Moreover, we are also recording the start and end time of attendance to calculate teachers' efficiency.