The present application discloses a attendance data acquisition means and an information processing system, the apparatus comprising a first data acquisition time and attendance terminal, the central processor and at least one second terminal, the first terminal is fixed to a predetermined target position, flag terminal for transmitting the contents of a second excitation signal, the excitation signal is received by the first flag is modified content to a second content of the flag; excitation of the first identification information and the first terminal of the excitation signal comprises time signal transmission; for the second terminal after receiving the excitation signal, which second identification information, and the content of the flag of the received excitation signal to the central processor; said central processing for the second identification information is received, and the contents of flag bits excitation signal carrying the first identification information and the transmission time for statistical integration to generate attendance data in the second terminal corresponding to the target position in the target region attendance.