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Wireless Student Attendance System using Fingerprint Sensor

Yu Maw Win1, Saw Aung Nyein Oo2
1Student, 2Associated Professor
1,2Department of Electronic Engineering, Mandalay Technological University, Mandalay, Myanmar

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Saw Aung Nyein Oo "Wireless Student Nowadays accurate personal identification is becoming more and more
Attendance System using Fingerprint important. Usual means (smart cards, passwords…) have shown their limits.
Sensor" Published in International Currently fingerprint recognition is the most widely used technique for personal
Journal of Trend in Scientific Research identification. The development of an attendance management system using
and Development biometrics is proposed. As the manual method of attendance system produced
(ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456- errors and taking lot of time during lecture period, an efficient and organized
6470, Volume-3 | biometrics system for students' attendance is purposed. The electronic system
Issue-4, June 2019, not only used to take attendance for the students, but a database is also
pp.1664-1668, URL: mentioned to store all the information which can be manipulated further in
https://www.ijtsrd.c future. Optical fingerprint sensor will make adding fingerprint detection and
om/papers/ijtsrd25 IJTSRD25157 verification super simple.This type of verification is widely used in various
157.pdf aspects of life for different purposes, like in security, police identification, etc.
Node MCU is used which provides the wireless communication. It also send the
Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and attendance report to PC. In this system, there are two parts, one is transmitter
International Journal of Trend in and another is receiver. In transmitter module, there is a Liquid Crystal Display
Scientific Research and Development (LCD), Arduino UNO, transmitter. In receiver module, Node MCU is mainly used.
Journal. This is an Open Access article The resultant message will show on LCD.
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I. INTRODUCTION
Biometric technology uniquely identifies an individual based attendance data in the database is used to create many types
on certain characteristics which can be physiological or of reports like specific day attendance, current day
behavioural. These techniques use data that is unique to the attendance, monthly attendance, weekly attendance,
individual and remains so throughout one’s lifetime. complete attendance and real time.
Fingerprints are emerging as the most popular biometrics
technology due to its uniqueness, stability, permanence and II. LITERATURE REVIEW
ease of acquisition. Presently in most of the educational With the help of previously implemented systems, we came
institutes, the attendance of students is taken by across various methods of attendance management system.
conventional method in which teacher calls the name of some of the methods are mentioned in the below literature
student and marks his attendance in a register. There are survey.
various disadvantages to this approach such as paper based
attendance registers are not uploaded to any centralized Student Attendance by, Nadar Prince, Abhishek Sengupta,
system therefore the data is not available for analysis, Ms. Keerthi Unni [3] presented Implementation of IoT Based
effective lecture time gets affected due to the time taken for Attendance System on a Dedicated Web-Server. In this paper
data collection and the system can also be cheated by the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is applied to the basic
students (buddy students might sign on behalf of absent attendance system in a class room. The student verification
students). is done using R-305 Finger Print module. The student data is
fed already in the finger print module. Once successful
Biometrics technology can solve these problems and recognition of finger print pattern is done, the student’s
proposed fingerprint based attendance system would be attendance is ready to be pushed to the web-server. This
ideal for implementation in universities for identification data is sent through the serial interface to the Arduino .A
and also by organizations for attendance monitoring of their combination of the student ID, teacher ID and device ID is
employees. Proposed system is designed using Arduino UNO sent to the web-server using Wi-Fi Module esp8266-01. And
and optical fingerprint acquisition module. Finger prints are the MySQL database is updated.
unique in nature, it gives attendance for only those who are
gave fingerprint while attendance time. Wi-Fi module is used Ms. Manjiri Pathak, Divya Prajapati, Vidya Prajapati, Bipin
for immediate data transfer to the backend server. A data, Nair, Swapnil Deo, 2017[4] proposed Wireless Fingerprint
which is the student ID is sent to the microcontroller will be Attendance Management System . In this paper the basic
decoded using Wi-Fi Module to the access point. The concept of attendance using biometric authentication is

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used. This paper uses the methodology of wireless This system is designed to an automated marking and
transmission of data using ZigBee model and ARM7 LPC2148 updating of an attendance in the database of computer.
which is the major component part of the project. The Student’s fingerprints are stored in the fingerprint module.
transmission of the data to the end server using ZigBee Node MCU is used for serial communication to the main
module from all the other techniques is efficient because it computer. The stored data can be viewed easily for future
has low power consumption. Considering the network usage. This system more secured than traditional attendance
topology of the ZigBee network it uses wireless local area system.
network which is a cluster tree network. To resolve the
problem of time delay when the image is transmitted by
ZigBee technology, the traditional transmission mode is
improved.

Attendance technique by Riya Lodha,, Suruchi Gupta, Harshil

Jain, Harish Narula ‘Bluetooth Smart Based Attendance
Management System [5]. In this paper we come across the
concept of Bluetooth smart chip which is controlling most of
the android application. The RFID scanner is used to scan the
electronic tags provided to the students. A Bluetooth Smart
chip is programmed and configured such that it works in
connection with the Android application via Bluetooth. Every
student is given a specific tag, which can then be detected by
the application via Bluetooth Low Energy. When he/she Figure2. Architecture of Proposed System
attends the lecture, a serial number (related to each
student’s SAP number) of the tag is associated with the Fig.2 represented student press their thumb on fingerprint
student database entry. Therefore, every time a student sensor in the entry of their class. When they pressed, their
carries his/her card and is attending the lecture the entries ids are sent to school office and record their attendance.
will be entered into the database with the time stamp as the Admin can check easily student’s roll-call percentage.
lecturer moves around the class and the application detects
the tags. Also, the application is configured to detect tags IV. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
only within a particular range in order to avoid detection of A. Fingerprint Sensor (AS608)
tags that are outside the class. Since the Bluetooth spectrum Optical fingerprint sensor will make adding fingerprint
range works in(the 2.400 GHz-2.4835 GHz ISM band). detection and verification super simple. These modules are
typically used in safes - there's a high powered DSP chip that
Biometric attendance system technique was proposed by does the image rendering, calculation, feature-finding and
Dhiman kumar sarkar, Nafize Ishtiaque Hussain, insane searching. Connect to any microcontroller or system with
Arafat Jamil, [6] which is Design and Implementation of TTL serial, and send packets of data to take photos, detect
Smart Attendance Management System using multistep prints, hash and search. You can also enroll new fingers
Authentication System. This research papers implements the directly- up to 162 finger prints can be stored in the onboard
attendance system using Arduino Mega 2560, RFID and FLASH memory. There's a red LED in the lens that lights up
biometrics that is finger print scanner. This system makes during a photo so you know its working. We like this
use of all the system including RFID and also biometrics. This particular sensor because not only is it easy to use, it also
research paper looks over all the possibilities if any one of comes with fairly straight-forward Windows software that
the system fails. Here the implementation takes place using makes testing the module simple - you can even enroll using
arduino Mega 2560 which is interfaced with the fingerprint the software and see an image of the fingerprint on your
scanner and the RFID. For display of the authentication computer screen.
process 16*16 LCD screen is used which is interfaced with
the keypad for the output.

III. OVERVIEW OF PROPOSED SYSTEM

System block diagram is shown in Fig.1

Figure4. Fingerprint Sensor

B. Arduino UNO
The Arduino UNO is an open-source microcontroller board
based on the Microchip ATmega328P microcontroller and
developed by Arduino. cc . The board is equipped with sets
of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be
interfaced to various expansion boards (shields) and other
circuits. The board has 14 Digital pins, 6 Analog pins, and
programmable with the Arduino IDE (Integrated
Figure 1. Block diagram of the System Development Environment) via a type B USB cable. It can be

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powered by a USB cable or by an external 9 volt battery, E. Buzzer
though it accepts voltages between 7 and 20 volts. The Uno A buzzer is a device which makes a buzzing or beeping noise.
board is the first in a series of USB Arduino boards, and the There are several kinds; the most basic is a piezoelectric
reference model for the Arduino platform. The ATmega328 buzzer, which is just a flat piece of piezoelectric material
on the Arduino Uno comes preprogrammed with a with two electrodes. This type of buzzer requires some kind
bootloader that allows uploading new code to it without the of oscillator (or something more complicated like a
use of an external hardware programmer. microcontroller) to drive it—if you apply a DC voltage you
will just get a click. They are used in places where you need
something that emits an audible tone, but don’t care about
high-fidelity sound reproduction, like microwave ovens,
smoke alarms, and electronic toys. They are cheap and can
be very loud without using very much power. They are also
very thin, so they can be used in flat objects like “singing”
greeting cards.

Figure 5.Arduino UNO

C. Node MCU
ESP8266 is a low-cost, WiFi Module chip that can be
configured to connect to the Internet for Internet of Things
(IoT) and similar Technology Projects. Basically, your Figure7. Buzzer
normal Electrical and Mechanical equipments cannot
connect to the Internet on their own. They don’t have the in- F. Software Description
built setup to do so. You can setup ESP8266 with these In this system, Arduino IDE, Microsoft Access Database and
equipments and do amazing stuff. Controlling, Monitoring, Visual Basic are used. Microsoft Access is a database
Analysis and much more. Node MCU is a Firmware on management system (DBMS). Microsoft Access stores data in
ESP8266. Its basically an SoC (System on Chip)A System on a its own format based on the Access Jet Database Engine.
Chip or System on Chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that Microsoft Visual Basic is a free development tool that can
integrates all components of a computer or other electronic help in designing and programming simple or complex
systems. applications. It has a nice, good interface to be desired and is
optimized to work quickly. Codes easily added either by
directly writing or by using a GUI.

V. TESTS AND RESULT

This design combines the arduino UNO with the fingerprint
module, display, and communication interfaces. Students are
required to place their fingerprint. After the enrollment
stage, the data will be saved in the fingerprint scanner and
Figure6. Node MCU the verification system takes place by comparing the
captured fingerprint characteristic with the previously
enrolled data. LCD displays the status and details of each
D. LCD
student during the enrollment and attendance marking
Lcd stands for liquid crystal display. Character and graphical
process.
lcd's are most common among hobbyist and diy electronic
circuit/project makers. Since their interface serial/parallel
pins are defined so its easy to interface them with many
microcontrollers. Many products we see in our daily life have
lcd's with them. They are used to show status of the product
or provide interface for inputting or selecting some process.
Washing machine, microwave, air conditioners and mat
cleaners are few examples of products that have character or
graphical lcd's installed in them.

Figure7. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Figure8. Testing of Fingerprint Sensor, LCD and Node MCU

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Fig.9, two Li-ion batteries having typical voltage of 3.7V is
connected in series, so that together they produce more than
7.4V. A 5V back converter is used to convert this voltage to
5V. The supply is controlled by a power ON switch and the
power status would be notified by a LED. LEDs is used to
monitor battery voltage. This circuit conserves the power by
turning ON it only when required. Then the battery voltage is
fed to the Arduino UNO through a internal ADC and is
processed to monitor battery critical functions. The device is
using two 1.4Ah Li-ion batteries for power. This converter
will read the charge from battery whenever it is necessary
thus saves the charge being drained out.[2]

Figure 11.Student’s Data Record

Fig.12 shows the testing Node MCU for serial communication

needed to transfer the student’s ID from fingerprint sensor
to the main computer.

Figure9. Battery Charge For Power Supply

Fig.10 represented the admin can control the student

registeration. The stored data can be viewed easily for future
usage.

Figure12. Testing for serial communication

Fig.13 shows the table of the student’s roll call marked. It

can be used to import a list of students to the application and
this data can be transferred to the device through USB.
Visual Basic uses Microsoft’s Excel interface class to interface
with Microsoft Excel. It can read Excel file and can create
new workbook without opening Microsoft Excel application.
Using Visual Basic, the software can read cell by cell details
and write new data into it.
Figure.10. Admin Screen

Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS)

from Microsoft that combines the relation with a graphical
user interface and software-development tools. Fig.10
represented the student’s data can be registered into the
database file via the GUI. It can also import or link directly to
data stored in other applications and databases. Visual
objects used in forms and reports expose their methods and
properties in the VBA programming environment, and VBA
code modules may declare and call Windows operating
system operations.

Figure 13.Table of the Student Attendance Record

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VI. CONCLUSION Communications Engineering, National Institute of
In this work, a secure, fast, reliable and an efficient Technology Calicut, Kerala, India
fingerprint sensor and Android based attendance system
[3] Nadar Prince, Abhishek Sengupta, Ms.Keerthi Unni, “
have been developed by replacing a manual and unreliable
Implementation of IoT Based Attendance System on a
system. The fingerprint sensor captured new fingerprint
Dedicated Web-Server”, International Journal of
images to be stored in the database and compared them with
Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 7, Issue 6,
those stored already in the database successfully. After
June-2016.
comparison, if the record already exists present in the
database, then a confirmation message displayed on the LCD. [4] “Wireless Fingerprint Attendance Management
Finally, a database has been maintained and individual System” presented by Ms. Manjiri Pathak1, Divya
record can be checked by using GUI. The stored data can be Prajapati2, Vidya Prajapati3, Bipin Nair4, Swapnil Deo5
viewed easily for future usage. This system more secured 1Guide, 2,3,4,5 Author’s, Computer Engineering,
than traditional attendance system. 1,2,3,4,5 Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil
Pratishthan’s College of Engineering, Mumbai, India
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
[5] Riya Lodhaa, Suruchi Guptaa, Harshil Jaina, Harish
Authors wish to thank Mandalay Technological University
Narulaa aD. J., “Bluetooth Smart based Attendance
for the support in providing the development tools, KITS and
Management System” presented from Sanghvi College
laboratory infrastructure in carrying out this project.
of Engineering, Mumbai-400014, India
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