mManagement: Wi-Fi Hotspot based Attendance Application using Android Smartphone

mManagement is new area for managing the business and human resource tasks that offers services by advance communication technologies and smart devices. Attendance is a hectic and time-consuming process in our daily lives. To resolve this, we proposed and developed a fully automated android smartphone application. It marks and tracks attendance as mManagement solution with an additional Wi-Fi hotspot feature. The objective of our application is to optimize the performance of taking attendance in an efficient and effective way. It reminds the students/attendees about timings of upcoming class via broadcasting a notification to attendees of that specific class. The app not only notes the attendance, but also track the presence of attendee, by automatically marking their attendance at predefined intervals. To evaluate our application, we tested the app in small conference halls, and it out-performed many existing android applications, especially applications based on Bluetooth connectivity. Our app works over the coverage area of maximum 24.5 meters radius in closed area, by marking attendance of 10 attendees simultaneously.