PROJECT TITLE

Design and development of a student attendance monitoring system

BACKGROUND
Presently we use a manual attendance monitoring system in our university. As we all
know there are a lot of problems with the manual students attendance monitoring system.
Some of the problems are given below.

Payment of an extra attention

Disturbance to both lecturer and students

Possibility to misplace the attendance sheets

Difficulty of analyzing

Difficulty to collect attendance from a large number of students

That implies a requirement to design and develop a students attendance monitoring

system considering the most of the issues related to this kind of a system.
Organizations where manual attendance recordings are done have to spend a lot of time,
cost and effort for recording, maintaining and utilizing the time and attendance data of
employees. This requires the time-office to record the IN/OUT timings, track leave, and
then use this data for generating payroll at the end of every month. It thus becomes a
tedious and a repetitive process, with a huge scope for human error.

Many private companies even in Sri Lanka use computer based access control systems
depending upon their requirement. These systems generally use either a bar code or
biometric authentication [finger print or retina] to detect the employee. But still they have
not been able to fully satisfied present requirements.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE
Find the most appropriate system to the existing problem

Replace present manual attendance recording system by an advance system with

facilitating easy analysis, Minimizing time consumption and cost incurred.

METHODOLOGY
Literature survey

Identifying existing techniques used in present attendance monitoring systems.

Situations and conditions where those systems are possible to be placed.

Why they cannot be used for our purpose.

Requirement analysis

Identify user requirements.

Identify the limitations of the systems which already exist.

Development of the system architecture

Development of the device to get the intended purpose done as shown in the following
follow chart.