Academic visitor management system with pervasive mobile integration

Abstract

Protecting faculty, staff and student is one of the main obligations of any educational institution but having a visitor at school grounds may mean sacrificing their safety. Visitors who enter the school come for different reasons and intentions. Some are legitimate visitors but some are burglars and troublemakers that disrupt the educational process. This becomes the primary security challenge for many educational institutions. The gate entrance and security personnel are the primary line of defense of the school against unwanted visitor. On the other hand, legitimate visitors are very important for the school since they can be a potential client and potential marketer if they witness how good the school system and infrastructure is. Most schools are still using a traditional and paper-based method. The visitor fill-out their information in the log book which can be falsified and some hand writing were hard to read. Hence, the report submitted is unreliable when administrator or school employee ask for a particular purpose, like theft or fighting incident. In addition, instructions of office, student, or employee whereabouts is very time consuming. This research study addresses these issues by developing an academic visitor management system (AVMS) with pervasive mobile integration.