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1 Introduction:
In education not only the content but also the administration is important. When
taking decisions, instructors and school administration staff must have accurate
and fast data about current state of the college and students. If there is no an
automation system, the data is not stored on computers therefore access to neces-
sary information is either difficult or time consuming. To obtain the information
fast and accurate an automation system is required. Nowadays a lot of technolo-
gies exist to accomplish that.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) assisted systems are one of them and in
this study RFID is used. RFID is a term that is used to describe a system that
transmits the identity of an object or person in the form of a unique serial number,
using radio waves.
The RFID technology was originally developed by the US military for the purpose
of missile tracking. As shown in Figure 1.1, a basic RFID system contains three
main components which are RFID tag, RFID reader and an antenna.
A tag consisting of an electronic microchip, a reader for reading and writing data
and is connected to a host computer that runs an application to process the data
passed by it, the data exchange between the tag and the reader is achieved by using
magnetic or electromagnetic fields. The production data stored in the microchip
can be transferred by the antenna.
RFID Technology is going to be next wave to automation in library industry.
RFID plays vital role in redefining the library process to make everyone’s job
easier right from patron to library staff. RFID provides a platform to automate
most of the process performed by the library staff like Check in – check out, sort-
ing, stock management and inventory. Library staff whose job is meant to be help-
ing patron, use library resources at the fullest, is always busy handling the books.
RFID helps to automate this process and provides them an opportunity to better
utilize their time in serving patrons.
Because the RFID has a relatively long transmission range from 1 cm to more
than 10 m by the antenna and a multi-tag recognition ability, it has the potential
to become a core replacement technology for the conventional barcode systems
used in the fields of safety, security, and logistics [1-3] .

Figure 1.1 A basic RFID system

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1.2 Problem statement :

Nowadays, there are lots of colleges and Universities around the world and some
of them consist of students up to thousands or more, This system is proposed to
overcome these problems:

• Get the student's identification:

To handle a large number of students may be a problem especially to get the
identification of the students through the exam days . The manual process is
that a staff comes to gate of the collage, This manual process is not efficient as
it waste time and consumes the students and staff energy.

• Tracking and manages student's attendance:

Calling student's name or taking student's signature are two traditional methods
for tracking the attendance of the students in the classroom and they were more
time consuming.

• Calculate the attendance percentage:

This would be a big problem in the colleges and Universities, the lecturer had
to take care of the register and enter the attendance percentage, if the attendance
sheet is missing, the attendance data will be lost.

1.3 Scope and Aims of Project:

• Provide a mobile RFID scanner device capable of scanning student's cards and
book’s tags with embedded RFID chips and processing the data on the card.
• The students, instructors and administration staff are provided with RFID tags.
• Provide a wireless interface between the scanner and database server.
• Provide a software suite to log information about scanned student's cards to:
- provide detailed statistics about student's attendance and calculate their grades.
- provide identification and authentication of student to access into the exams .
- On the library, provide information about borrowed and returned books re-
lated to each student by scanned student's cards and book’s tags.

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1.4 Requirements:

1.4.1 Hardware tools:

a. RFID reader.
b. RFID Tags.
c. Nodemcu board.
d. Power supply.

1.4.2 Software tools:

a. Arduino ide.
b. Visual code.
c. MySQL.
d. Apache server.
e. Laravel framework .
f. Laravel echo server.

1.5 Motivation:

The main features of this project are :

1. Long read range and high reading speed is achievable.

2. RFID tag can be encapsulated or be implanted within a product so it can
stand in a harsh environment.
3. The tag is programmable, therefore can be used as a portable database.
4. RFID provides easy student's identification and reduces errors.
5. No extra power supply is needed (for passive RFID tags). The power is
supplied by the reader.
6. wireless solution provides a great development on the speed of processing,
mobility to the lecturer and also give comfort to the student.
7. In library, patrons find what they are looking for quickly and easily and they
can submit borrowed and returned books in time.

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1.6 Project Organization:

This project will be divided into five chapters each of which will take care of
several molecules related to the project:

Chapter 1: (introduction)
It involves the overview of this project.

Chapter 2: ( RFID &Wi-Fi )

It describes the RFID and Wi-Fi technologies.

Chapter 3: ( System and Design Overview )

It consists of The two main parts of the system hardware and application
software components.

Chapter4: ( system implementation )

It involves the stages of hardware, which describes methods of constructing
hardware, and programming processes, which being applied in software.

Chapter 5: (Conclusion and Future Work )

It gives the conclusion of the project and some suggestions for future work to
develop this project.

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