IOT BASED BIOMETRIC ATTENDANCE SYSTEM

USING ARDUINO

Komal Gore (Author)

Information Technology Department
Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology
Jaipur, India
gorekomal576@gmail.com

Kajol Sharma (Author)

Information Technology Department
Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology
Jaipur, India
kajol016.sharma@gmail.com

Shivani Sharma(Author)
Information Technology Department
Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology
Jaipur, India
sharmashivani29122000@gmail.com

Radhika Sharma(Author)
Information Technology Department
Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology
Jaipur, India
radhey2900@gmail.com

Neha Kumari (Author)

Information Technology Department
Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology
Jaipur, India
neha7jan1999@gmail.com

Ritika Sharma (Project Guide)

Information Technology Department
Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology
ritikas593@gmail.com
Abstract— In the world of Technology, Biometrics plays a very important role to identify Human
beings. By this project, we will develop a unique system that can identify students for attendance
purposes using their fingerprints and mark their presents in College premises, and it will send a
message to their parents that “Your Student Entered into College” or “Your Student left from
College”(1).

In this project, we are going to design a Fingerprint Sensor Based Biometric Attendance System
using Arduino In this project, we used the fingerprint Module and Arduino to take and keep
attendance data and records as well as count and keep track of student active present time in the
college (2).

Keywords-Attendance System, IOT based Attendance System, BiometricSystem, Fingerprint

matching System.

I. INTRODUCTION

The main objective of the project is to automate the process of attendance and make it possible to
check attendance in real time (3).
All the students will apply their fingerprints in this system, we will compare them with the stores
fingerprints which would be taken previously and if it matches then will increase the attendance counting
by one and attendance will be marked (4).

Fig 1: Arduino based biometric attendance system

 It also provides the facility to send messages to the parents of the students about their arrival and
exited timing (5).
As biometric attendance system makes it easier to take attendance as well as maintain it in an easy
way.

II. MAJOR PROBLEM IDENTIFIED

There are different concern areas for which a unique and effective model is needed. The major
problems that are identified are such as :-

False Attendance: This project will help us to reduce the false attendance marking by other students
on behalf of someone else in school. As now a days there is a trend of “proxy attendance” between the
college and universities’ students, it will reduce that [6].

Focused Learning : In colleges teachers have to invest a major part of their lectures to count number
of students. It will reduce that time and study will be more focused without any intervention [7].

Security and Assurance: This system will provide the information of child to parents, via this they
can make sure their wards is safe and reached in school or is not doing bunk in case of college students
[8].

III. OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

The main objective of the project is to automate the process of attendance and make it possible to
check attendance in real time (9).
In this system we will send message to their parent when they will enter in college and while leaving
college like, “Your Student Entered into College” or “Your Student Left from College”.

FINGERPRINT
ENROLLMENT

FINGERPRINT
COMPARISION &RECOGNITION
 VALIDATION OF RECOGNISED FINGAPRINT

GRANTING ATTENDANCE:
UPLOADING DATA IN SD CARD

SEND MESSAGE TO PARENTS

Fig 2: Block Diagram

IV. TECHNICAL DETAILS

A. Hardware Required –
 Arduino Uno
 Fingerprint Module R307
 Push Button
 LED
 GSM Module
 Power Supply
 Connecting Wires
 6*2 LCD
 Breadboard
 RTC Modules DS3231
 1K Resistor
 2.2K Resistor
 SD Card
B. Software Required –
 Arduino IDE
 Thinkboard
 SD Card Module
 Adafruit Fingerprint Sensor Library
.

V. DESCRIPTION OF THE SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION

To Implement the Biometric attendance system model, initially we will take the fingerprint of all the
students using a fingerprint sensor and store it into the sensor itself (10).
While entering or leaving from the college premises whenever students apply their fingerprint, these
will match the stored fingerprints and identify the students id and keep track of their attendance with the
help of counting the records present in SD card which we are using to store attendance data (11).
It also send a message to their parents that “Your ward entered into the college premises” when
student enter into the college and “Your ward exited from the college campus” when student exit from
college premises (12).

VI. SOLUTION IMPLEMENTED

To implement and make this model there are certain steps which are –
1. Taking Fingerprints and Store them – Initially we will take fingerprints of all the students who
enrolled in the college using a fingerprint sensor and stored in the sensor itself and gives a unique student
id (13).
 Fig 3: Attendance data in SD card

2. Match ID and Keep Track – Then whenever any student will enter or exit the college premises he/she
has to enter his/her fingerprint. These will match the stored fingerprints and identify the student id and
keep track of their attendance (14).

Fig 4: Enrollment Process

3. Send Text on Specified Contact Number – Also send text to the specified contact number at the time of
arrival as well as exit (15).

VII. ADVANTAGES

1. Use only a single sensor for taking fingerprints for both time (enter and exit) (16).
2. Add a counter function to keep track of the total number of students present on a daily basis (17).
3. Use a SD card to store the data on a daily basis (18).

VIII. CONCLUSION

By this project we will automate the whole attendance process and save time that will avoid the
intervention during the lectures and also ensures safety of student and parents also will be able to know
that their ward is present in college or not (19).

IX. ACKNOWLEDGEMNET

We would like to express our warm gratitude to our technical faculty members who helped us during the
entire duration and also want to pay sincere acknowledgement to all the authors who gave us the faith to
put forward this work and encourage us at every point of time (20).

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