002 CSP315 Presentations

CSP-315
Android Based Attendance System

Under Guidance Presentation 1 of: Prof. M. Balakrishnan
1 CSP315- Android Based Attendance System
Pallav Agrawal 2009CS50250 Ankush Jindal 2009CS50234 Harsh Gupta
Outline
Motivation Objectives System Requirements Design Details Interesting Decisions
Milestones
Status So Far
Motivation
Taking attendance in large classes is
cumbersome
repetitive Consumes valuable class time
Universality of mobile phones motivates to make
better use of this technology.
CSP315- Android Based Attendance System
Objectives
Automating user identification via Android Based
protocol.
Develop and Implement attendance system . Create an android mobile application to provide a
consistent UI to interact with the system.
System Requirements
Hardware
Server Android Phone
Software
Eclipse IDE
Students phones
Android SDK
Apache web server
Android Based Application

Drupal CMS
Design Details
High Level Architecture Diagram
Concept Diagram
Mobile Application Higher Level Details
Web Service Design
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High Level Architecture Of Web Server
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Web Site Design
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Professor/Host
by human cmd by automated scheduling
Ping
Search in range
proxy check push to db
Initialisation
Store
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Android Based Activity

Detection of visible Devices Receipt and Storage Of Data Extract mac addresses
Comparison of received addresses with registered addresses
User intervention to override presence of student
Proxy Attendance Checking
Saving attendance for the session

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Sync with server on internet connection
Interesting Decisions
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Points of Discussion
Proxy Attendance
Persistent problem that needs to be addressed Need a robust solution Present Ideas:
Random checks by professor. Manual verification of headcount.
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Points of Discussion
Creation of simple app to authenticate student
E.g. Entering a password for verification Does not solve proxy problem Can cause distraction during class
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Ease of Use on Mobile Application

Mobile app to have features for enabling plugins. Some examples of plugins are:
Automatically take attendance as per schedule. Proxy attendance based (discussed earlier).
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Database Features
Integration with Kerberos Authentication. Providing secure and encrypted access to the
database.
Automated Initialization of the database for courses. Permission Centric model with different privileges to
each kind of user.

of administrative users to police entire CSP315- Android Based Attendance System 19 Provision
Milestones (completed)
Design [1st June] Procure Hardware [14th July] Sanity Check [19th July] Database @Android [26th July] Navigation GUI @Android [5th August]
Milestones
Hardware Calibration [12th August] Bare Bones Web Service [30th August] Security Enhancements [22nd Sep] Proxy Plugins Development [12th Oct] Scheduling Plugins Development [20th Oct]
Milestones
Polish GUI [27th Oct] Creation of Project Poster Final Demo
Present Status
Design
Sanity Check
Database @Android
Website
Present Status
Navigation GUI
Bare bones Web Service

Immediate Steps
Calibration
Sync with webserver

Tasks and Scheduling
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Task Distribution
Harsh
Design of database on mobile app.
Ankush
Design of the Android Based Activity
Sending and receiving data@ android end

Communication of the web server and app
Task Distribution
Pallav
Design of the Mobile User Interface
Deeksha
Design of the web server database
Security in connections
Implementation of the website
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Hiccups
Delay in procuring android phone.
Procured two weeks before semester started. Rescheduled plan accordingly.
Unable to access database from entire campus
network
Solved by setting up database on
poorvi.cse.iitd.ac.in
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Hiccups
Windows Phone 7
Android Based API not exposed in Mango ( ver.
7.5) Android Based API expected to be out in Next Update -2012.
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Project Weblink
http://sites.google.com/site/csp315attend/
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Thank You
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CSP-315
Android Based Attendance System

Presentation 2
Under Guidance of: Prof. M. Balakrishnan
Pallav Agrawal 2009CS50250 Ankush Jindal 2009CS50234 Harsh Gupta
Design Details
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Recap
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Android App Re-imagined

Initial Design
Course 1
Course 2
Details Of Attendees
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Attendance Log

New Design
Contact List
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Courses
Meetings
Professors of same dept Contact List All Course Attendees
Other Profs
Students of same dept
Other students
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Courses
Course1
..
Ids of attendees
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Attendance Log
Schedule etc

Meetings
Group 1
Meeting1
Ids of attendees
Invitation response status
Log of Present People
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Permission Model - Choices

Person Centric
Create list of people
Course Centric
Create list of
who can edit the attendance logs of one person. [tas , profs, course coordinator] Very Rigorous. Pretty Cumbersome.
privileged people for each course. Each of these people can edit attendance of any attendee. Less rigorous. More Flexible and very practical
Project Status
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LDAP & Kerberos Integration

Automated initialization from LDAP
List of courses List of attendees Course Coordinators Identification of user groups
Integrated with the Kerberos authentication
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LDAP Integration - Leaks

Only course coordinator in LDAP
Other profs have to manually registered for each
course with super privileges.

TAs are not available in LDAP.
Any super of the course can manually add TAs
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Initialization Of Database On App

Relevant Data is sent over to the app on
initialization. Codes:
CA: Course Add CD: Course Delete SA : Student Add SM : Student Modify SD : Student Delete SP: Student Proxy
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Networking : Server <-> App

Transaction Of Attendance Logs
Transaction Of Updated Mac Addresses

Transaction Of Proxy Attendance JSON encoding is used for transaction of strings.
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Network Security
Web server uses https(128 bit encryption) for all
communications
Web site Android app
Installation of website certificate is integrated with
the app installation (automatic).
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Next Actions
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How to get MAC addresses?

Proposed Solutions:
Direct Input from user User looks up Android Based MAC address and enters into profile via webpage Different Procedures as per manufacturer of the phone Windows Program Design of windows program Display a list of Android Based Connections in range and corresponding MAC addresses.
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Experimentation
Run experiment in Labs
Short circuits:
User registration Course Attendees Lookup
Data to be recorded:
Number of people present. Number of people found to be present. Maximum distance to which a person was
registered present. Number of people in proximity but not marked present.

Open Questions
How to find maximum number of connections that
can be identified by a mobile phone?
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Android Based Based Attendance Project

PRESENTATION 3
RECAP
OBJECTIVES
Identify people by mac addresses Automate attendance process for large classes
System Design
Deliverables
Android app
Web server Desktop app to register users
Project status
Progress before Presentation2
Website
Web service Automatic initialization(ldap) Web interface
App
Android Based ping Encrypted Communication Kerberos integration
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Progress after presentation 2

Android App Meetings support added Experimentation Diagnostic activity coded.. Results later. Website SMTP email sending deployed.
Meeting
Adhoc meetings:
Create meeting on the spot On the spot querying of web server may be
required.
Preplanned meetings:
Send invitations via web interface. Relevant entries can be synced in advance.
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Desktop Application
Need : Register students mac-address.
Requirements:
Portable and easy to run. Independent of Android Based stack. Does not allow mac address sharing Kerberos Authentication
Implementation:
Uses Android Based stack provided by python-
bluez
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Experiment
Maximum range till which a person may be
identified? Maximum number of people that can be identified? Are we missing out any people in the vicinity? How much battery is consumed? How much time is needed to find n people? How much time should the application run?
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Maximum Range
Without any obstructions:54 m
With one wall in the middle: 12m outside wall
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Battery Consumed
Battery Level
42.5 42
41.5
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40.5
Battery Level
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39.5
39 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 Number of people found
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Time taken to detect People

500 450 400 350
Tiem in seconds
300
250
200 150 100 50 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 Number of people 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200
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Running time of app?

Keep a count of number of people found in
previous 40 seconds. Stop when count==0
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Next steps
Store photographs of students in the android
database. Add proxy catching heuristics to code

Randomly display names of present people
Add scheduling functionality to the app so that it
can run on itself as per a timetable. Stress testing , checking for any open loops.
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Thank you
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Android Based Attendance System

1 CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Pallav Agrawal 2009CS50250 Ankush Jindal 2009CS50234 Harsh Gupta

better use of this technology.

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

consistent UI to interact with the system.

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Android Based Application

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

High Level Architecture Diagram

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Mobile Application Higher Level Details

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Web Service Design

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

High Level Architecture Of Web Server

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Web Site Design

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

by human cmd by automated scheduling

proxy check push to db

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Android Based Activity

Comparison of received addresses with registered addresses

User intervention to override presence of student

Proxy Attendance Checking

Saving attendance for the session

Sync with server on internet connection

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Random checks by professor. Manual verification of headcount.

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Ease of Use on Mobile Application

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

each kind of user.

Bare bones Web Service

Sync with webserver

Tasks and Scheduling

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Sending and receiving data@ android end

Communication of the web server and app

Implementation of the website

Unable to access database from entire campus

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

7.5) Android Based API expected to be out in Next Update -2012.

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Android Based Attendance System

33 CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Pallav Agrawal 2009CS50250 Ankush Jindal 2009CS50234 Harsh Gupta

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Android App Re-imagined

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Android App Re-imagined

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System

Android App Re-imagined

Professors of same dept Contact List All Course Attendees

Students of same dept

CSP315- Android Based Attendance System