Philippine E-Journals

UNIFIED ATTENDANCE MONITORING USING RFID

Roan Dela Cerna | Anjo Montesclaros | Susuki James Ruiz | Charlotte Amalie Quiñones | Carlos Villanueva | Ian Van Villena | Nikko Paolo Gumia

 

Abstract:

The University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC) is divided into multiple student organizations: namely the Student Supreme Government (SSG), the Office of Student Affairs and Discipline (OSAD) and several programs. Each of these organizations manages events, meetings and other student gatherings. The attendances of students are collected to monitor the frequency of the students attending. Each organization uses different techniques on collecting students’ attendances. The most commonly used in all of those approaches is the distribution of attendance slips. The researchers came up with a study that aims to provide an alternative way of collecting student’s attendance and to unify the medium used into single item which is the student’s ID. This can be achieved using the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The researcher of the study developed two applications: the UniAMS desktop application and UniAMS web based application. The desktop application uses an RFID reader and a web camera. The purpose of the web camera is to capture an image of the student who will login and the image data as a validation proof. The web based application is used to monitor the attendance collected in the desktop application. It can be accessed on the internet using Cloud Computing technology.