Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education

Region IV-A CALABARZON

Division of Cavite

GENERAL MARIANO ALVAREZ TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite

School ID: 301192

Monitoring the Attendance of the Students in General Mariano Alvarez Technical High

School Using Finger Print Scanner with the use of Arduino Nano

A Research Project

Submitted to the Faculty of the

Department of Science and Technology

General Mariano Alvarez Technical High School

General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite

In partial fulfillment

of the requirements for the strand

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Jose Fernando P. Babasa

John Michael Ronnel Geneta

Ingle Paul De Leon

Introduction

Fingerprint is one of the most unique parts of the human body that distinguishes
one person from others and is easily accessed. This uniqueness is supported by technology that
can automatically identify or recognize a person called fingerprint sensor. The researchers aims to
create a program to be able to recognize each user in a different fingerprint sensor. The purpose of
this research is to build fingerprint sensor system for monitoring of attendance of the students in
General Mariano Alvarez Technical High School.

The Arduino Nano is a small, complete, and breadboard-friendly board based on

the ATmega328P. The Arduino Nano is programmed using the Arduino Software (IDE), our
Integrated Development Environment common to all our boards and running both online and
offline.

Biometrics are device that automated to recognize a person based on a

psychological or behavioral characteristics. Biometrics can measured are faces, fingerprints, hand
geometry, hand writing, iri, retinal, vein and voice. Our Biometrics is use by fingerprints,
fingerprint scanner system has two basic jobs it needs to get an image of your finger, and it needs
to determine whether the pattern of ridges and valleys in this image matches the pattern of ridges
and valleys in pre-scanned images. Only specific characteristics, which are unique to every
fingerprint, are filtered and saved as an encrypted biometric key or mathematical representation.
No image of a fingerprint is ever saved, only a series of numbers (a binary code), which is used
for verification. The algorithm cannot be reconverted to an image, so no one can duplicate your
fingerprints.
Significance of The Study

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the device by answering the
question that follows:

 How does the device functions?

 What type of program did the researchers create for the device?
 What application did the researchers used to create the program?
 How many students can the device monitor the attendance?

Definition of Terms

Arduino- refers to an open-source electronics platform or board and the software used to program
it. Arduino is designed to make electronics more accessible to artists, designers, hobbyists and
anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

Fingerprint- an impression or mark made on a surface by a person's fingertip, especially as used

for identifying individuals from the unique pattern of whorls and lines.

Biometric system- is a technological system that uses information about a person to identify that
person. Biometric systems rely on specific data about unique biological traits in order to work
effectively.
 CHAPTER II

Review Related Literature

Conceptual Literature

This study utilizes the following concept which were used as backround of the study such
as Biometric System, Microsoft Visual Basic, Arduino and Attendance Monitoring.

Biometric System. Techopedia explains Biometric System The specific nature of today’s
biometric systems is associated with a specific use of the term "biometrics." In general, biometrics
is any use of biological data in technology. Biometric systems focusing exclusively on the
identification of humans have become the major kind of biometric system in today’s IT world.
Governments, businesses and organizations can use biometric systems to get more information
about individuals or about a populace as a whole. Many biometric systems are developed for
security applications. An airport scanning device, a "bio-password" system, or an internal data
gathering protocol is an example of a biometric system that uses identifying data for a security
result.

Microsoft Visual Basic. Alan Cooper the developer of this Application and introduced in 1991,
Visual Studio includes a compiler and other tools for this language. Visual Basic for Applications
(VBA) is a programming language that is built into Office applications like Excel and Access.
Visual Basic is Microsoft's high-level object-oriented rapid application development environment
for the Windows platform. The first versions of Visual Basic were intended to target Windows 3.0
(a version for DOS existed as well), however it was not until version 3.0 for Windows 3.1 that this
programming language gained large-scale acceptance in the shareware and corporate
programming community. Using drawing tools that resemble those found in hardcopy page layout
programs or PhotoShop, VB programmers make user interfaces by drawing controls and other UI
components onto forms. The programmer then adds code to respond to user interactions with the
controls (for example, clicks, drag and drop, etc.) known as events. The code can trigger events in
other controls (for example, by displaying text or an image), execute procedures (run some
algorithm based on the values entered in some control, output data, do business logic, etc), or
almost anything else one might do in code. According to him Visual Basic 2010 is the version of
Visual Basic launched by Microsoft in 2010. VB2010 is almost similar to Visual Basic 2008, but
it has added many new features. Like Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic 2010 is also a full-fledged
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Language, so it has caught up with other OOP languages
such as C++, Java,C# and others.

Arduino. In 2005, having trust in the work of Hernando Barragán (creator of Wiring), Massimo
Banzi and David Cuartielles created Arduino, an easy-to-use programmable device for interactive
art design projects, at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy. And there are types of
Arduino’s, Arduino Uno (R3), LilyPad Arduino, Red Board, Arduino Mega (R3), and
Arduino Leonardo. So this research we will use Arduino Mega for applying the program for the
fingerprint sensor.

Attendance Monitoring. A concept according to Satoa (2013), elaborated that Attendance

Monitoring System using biometrics authentication defines that attendance is a very important
factor in many institutions and organizations and its one of the significant criteria to follow for
students and organization employees. The previous approach in of manually taking and
maintaining the attendance records was a very inconvenient task. After having these issues in mind
an automatic attendance system is furthermore developed.Some commonly used biometric
techniques are used for objective identification and verification like iris recognition, voice
identification, fingerprint identification, DNA recognition etc.