Utilizing QR Codes for Smart and Low-cost Student Attendance Acquisition and Monitoring System in Eastern Visayas State University, Philippines

Abstract

SDG 4 that pertains to quality education can be initialize through schools and universities for direct impact. Thus, one way to have quality education is to ensure that students go to school and receive learning from the academe. However, absenteeism has a significant impact on their academic achievement of every student since those who attend school consistently are more likely to thrive academically. With that, this study aims to address absenteeism using a smart attendance acquisition and monitoring system. The first objective is to design and build a prototype of the Student Attendance Acquisition System (SAAS) utilizing QR code technology and the Raspberry Pi. Then, the establishment of web server for the Attendance Monitoring System (AMS) that can store, retrieve, and display attendance data can be employed. Finally, the constructed system's efficiency must be able to test for reliability and identify the top absentees among the participants. Thus, using the QR code technology, there were no problem in the system after testing to 10 BSECE students over five consecutive days. The prototype is highly efficient and has a strong potential for EVSU attendance system improvement, which might reduce absenteeism and increase student performance in the BSECE department and to the university.