Secure Smart Card Reader for University Presence System

This paper proposes Secure Smart Card Reader that performs middle process security for University presence system. Smart card data transaction is a crucial process that needs to be secured, including attendance system on campus that is involving students and employees. Current smart card reader system is a mostly passive reader. Commonly security system resides in the back-end server application. A reader performs the process of reading the card data and sends it to the server application. However, such reader systems are lacking in securing and validating data being transacted in the middle process. This paper proposes a data presence security system performed in a smart card reader. The smart card reader reads the card data and checks the validity of both cards and data regarding the security system. Experiments have been done by connecting the secure smart card reader system to the campus information system. The results show the effectiveness of security process with secure smart card reader system. The system may prevent the use of a presence card that violates system security.