Prototype of College Student Attendance Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) at Musamus University

Abstract

Student attendance in the classroom is one indicator for lecturers in learning activities. At Musamus University, student attendance has been managed digitally. The system is known as SIMAKAD. The weakness of SIMAKAD in doing attendance is in the process of entering data. Student attendance data can be inputted by the lecturer after completing the manual signature process by students. This can cause errors in entering data into the system. Whereas in the industrial revolution of the 4.0 era, the transformation of digital data in education was needed. For example, with the presence of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The student attendance prototype using RFID was designed as a solution to solve problems in entering student attendance data at SIMAKAD. RFID technology can identify each student while attending college through reading the student TAG ID. By adding Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, the results of reading student IDs will be sent directly through the internet and stored in a database server. The database can be directly used by lecturers as monitoring attendance of lectures. So no need to use manual absence.