IBeacon-Based Smart Attendance Monitoring and Management System

Abstract

The problem of fake attendance (proxy) is growing day by day. There are many technologies used to develop the attendance system like RFID, biometrics, bar code. Because all these technologies have been used, many students are able to mark the fake attendance (proxy) and some systems are very time consuming. There is a need to develop the riskless and shielded attendance monitoring and management system which is our main motto. The technology which we are going to use in the proposed system is “iBeacon Technology” which is mostly used for indoor positioning system and proximity detection and also beneficial in removing the problem of fake attendance. The newer technology which is found out to interact with hardware is iBeacon. An iBeacon works on Bluetooth Low Energy technology which is used to send a signal in a definite format. The iBeacon devices give accurate results in an indoor system in spite of the influencing factors of radio waves. In iBeacon devices, we can adjust the range of beacon up to which the device can transmit. The range of iBeacon is up to 200 m, which can vary according to the type of iBeacon used. An infinite number of devices can be connected to the iBeacon. The main advantage of the proposed system is to overcome the human intervention and follow the concept of paperless smart work. The accuracy of our proposed system is very high, i.e., 100%, and removes human intervention to almost zero.