An NFC Based Student Attendance Tracking/Monitoring System Using an IoT Approach

Student attendance shapes many aspects of a university; however, it’s still widely recorded by hand. While it is common for a professor to pass around a sign-in sheet to enter in attendance to a web-based application later manually, this makes for an unreliable method, leaving many inconsistencies. With today’s advances in technology, an automated attendance recording, tracking, and monitoring system will greatly improve the efficiency and reliability of attendance tracking. Several other works have proposed solutions using near field communication and IoT technologies; however, many use a single point at the start of a lecture to record attendance. This is likely to cause bottlenecks and take away time from the course. We implemented a system that incorporates NFC, cloud-based services, and a web interface for end-users. Our design introduces a one-to-one method using a student ID with an RFID tag to RFID reader located at each desk.