RFID Based Authentication for Non-contacting Attendance Management during Covid19 Pandemic using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Authentication based attendance is very crucial in this COVID Pandemic situation for employers. Finger print based authentication for attendance system is not preferable because it is based on touching or contacting the finger print sensor. Multiple persons use the same sensor for incoming and outgoing authentication which becomes carrier for spreading the corona virus as another person would be in direct contact of the fingerprint sensor. To avoid this situation RFID based authentication system is proposed and initial stages of it are implemented in this paper. Each employee has given an RFID tag with numbers and names assigned to it. Raspberry Pi module is used which is interfaced with other modules like RFID card reader, LCD interface and GSM module. The contact details authenticated by the system can be saved in data file for further analysis of employees’ attendance. This small innovative step can enhance the efforts made to prevent every user from COVID19.