Attendance recording and consolidation system using Arduino and Raspberry Pi

In many schools and colleges, teachers record the students' attendance in an attendance register manually. Later this data is entered in to a computer and the aggregate percentage of students' attendance is calculated. This method results in duplication of work and increases manpower requirements. In this paper, an attendance recording and consolidation system (ARCS) is implemented using Arduino and Raspberry Pi microcontroller boards. Arduino is used to implement the attendance recording device (ARD), whereas Raspberry Pi is used as a Web server. ZigBee technology is used for transmitting the attendance from the ARD to the server. A web page is created by using PHP language to display the aggregate percentage of attendance of each student corresponding to various classes in the institution. The advantages of this method are user friendly, secure and affordable.