Biometric Attendance System Research Articles

Relationship of Biometric Attendance System with Performance, Job Related Stress and Satisfaction of University Teachers in Pakistan

The main target of this research study is to dig-out the impact of biometric attendance on teachers’ performance at Hazara University. A self-administered structured questionnaire is developed for data collection. A sample of 150 employees are chosen from the targeted population through stratified random sampling. The collected data is collated, coded, and punched in the SPSS for descriptive and inferential analysis. The results point out that 67% of those informants are male, while 33% are females. The highest number, 58% of employees are in Grade-18, and only 5% employees are in Grade-21. Further, it shows that 88% participants are agreed to the installation of biometric attendance system. However, 87% respondents agreed that biometric system ensures teachers attendance on time. Moreover, correlation analysis results indicate that biometric system has a strong positive significant relationship with employees’ attendance and employees’ performance. But it has a significant negative relationship with job-related stress. Alongside, by independent sample T-test, gender differences are found that females are more in job-related stress than male due to the biometric system. The study concludes that biometric system has a high-level significant influence on the teachers’ attendance schedule and their performance. Further, the study recommends the application of biometric attendance system in academia, it will, in turn, improve and ensure the performance level of employees.

ABCD Analysis of Fingerprint Biometric Attendance Maintenance System

The drastic developments in Information and Communication Technology enabled many types of technology-aided attendance maintenance system in Higher Educational Institutions. A fingerprint is one of the most common and popularly known biometric systems all over the world. The usage of fingerprints for authentication is a universally prevalent solution and a majority of the population has legible fingerprints. This is more than a number of humans who have passports, license and identification cards. It has fairly one of the maximum accurate forms of biometrics available. Fingerprint biometric has been utilized in numerous areas together with entry management and door-lock control, smart cards, vehicle ignition control framework and fingerprint controlled access control system. Because the superior technology allows even extra compact fingerprint sensor size, the variety of application is expanded to the cellular market. One of the important applications of the biometric system is in attendance maintenance and which is incorporated in many of the higher educational institutions. From olden days, three styles of fingerprints may be obtained, namely, exemplar prints, latent prints and plastic prints. In this paper, we study fingerprint attendance maintenance system with its advantages, benefits, constraints, and disadvantages. We use focus group interaction method to gather information on fingerprint biometric attendance system. This paper also discusses some recommendations for fingerprint biometric attendance system. This paper could play an active and supportive role in fingerprint biometric attendance based researches.

Impact of Biometric Attendance System in Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) of India: A Perception Study of Stakeholders of Selected HEIs of Ranchi (India)

The recent decade has become highly competitive with mushroom growth of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in India. These institutions need to prove themselves by rendering higher quality services and better productivity in highly competitive scenario. The faculty mebers and students are the two eminent stakeholders of the HEIs, and for the efficiency of the organizations, both set of stakeholders, i.e., faculty members’ and students’ active involvement in each and every facet of functioning is a must which demands discipline in attendance and honesty in involvement. HEIs today are thus introducing some system for monitoring or assessing quality and regularity of both the faculty members and students for increasing the productivity and efficiency. On this backdrop, the Bio-metric system of attendance both for the students and employees of HEIs has been thought of in recent times to make the stakeholders disciplined and task-oriented. Considering this, while it has been a matter of temptation to introduce the system, it has also been equally important to assess the impact after adopting the technology of the stakeholders for who the system is going to be put into action. Thus, this Paper has considered two HEIs of Ranchi (India) who have already introduced Biometric Attendance System (BAS), to assess the projected impact of new technology in increasing organization’s productivity and efficiency.

Enhanced Biometric Attendance and Recording System for Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff in a Tertiary Institution

Enhanced Biometric Attendance and Recording System for Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff in a Tertiary Institution Biometric technology offers an advanced verification of human identity used in most schools and companies for recording the daily attendance of the employees. This study uses the biometric technology to address the problems of many companies and schools such as employees doing the proxy attendance for their colleagues, stealing company time, and putting in more time in the daily time record (DTR). The researcher developed a system with the use of fingerprint reader and the webcam device to facilitate the recording of login and logout of the employees in the school campus. The employee uses one finger to record his or her time of arrival and departure from the office through the use of the fingerprint reader. The DTR of employees is recorded correctly by the system; the tardiness and under time in the morning and in the afternoon of their official time is also computed. The system was developed using the Microsoft Visual C# 2008 programming language, MySQL 5.1 database software, and Software Development Kit (SDK) for the fingerprint reader and the webcam device.

Integrated System for Monitoring and Recognizing Students During Class Session

In this paper we propose a new student attendance system based on biometric authentication protocol. This system is basically using the face detection and the recognition protocols to facilitate checking students’ attendance in the classroom. In the proposed system, the classroom’s camera is capturing the students’ photo, directly the face detection and recognition processes will be implemented to produce the instructor attendance report. Actually, this system is more efficient than others student attendance methods since the detection and the recognition are considered to be the best and fastest method for biometric attendance system. Regarding to the students and instructor sides, the system is working without any preparation and with no more effort.

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Digital age: 'finger recognition' technology has been introduced into care homes to monitor how many hours nurses are working at any one time. As nurses at the care homes start and finish their shifts, they place their fingers into a wall-mounted scanner. This identifies tiny points on the finger and stores information about them so that each finger can be recognised when placed in the scanner again. By this method, the scanner can record exactly how long nurses have worked. Helen McArdle Care has introduced the 'biometric attendance system' into its five care homes. Managers argue that it will 'prevent overpayment for time not worked', and ensure that there is a correct skill mix in place. RCN senior employment relations adviser Karen Didovic said the system could be good if it ensures that nurses are paid for the overtime they work, but added: 'I do not think it should be the primary system for measuring staffing levels on the ward.' Pictured is healthcare assistant Natalie Allcock clocking in at Needham Court nursing home, in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear.