Students ‘ Attendance Monitoring System in Classroom Using Radio Frequency Identification Technology : A Proposed System Framework

Today students’ (class) attendance is become more important part for any organizations/institutions. Recording and monitoring of class attendance is an area of administration that can require significant amounts of time and effort in a school/university environment, largely due to the amount of time required in lectures to get the necessary information. This paper presents the integration of ubiquitous computing systems into classroom for managing the students’ attendance using RFID technology. RFID technology can be a powerful tool in helping to manage student‘s attendance throughout the working school day and also enhance classroom security. RFID technology has been applied to solve problems where it is necessary to take automatically record the movements and locations of students in a classroom of school/university environment. A real time intelligent system is implemented in conjunction with RFID hardware to record students’ attendance at lectures and laboratories in a school/university environment. RFID is a technology that allows for a tag affixed on identity card to communicate wirelessly with a reader, in order for the tag’s identifier to be retrieved. Keywords—Ethernet, RFID, EPC, Middleware, LAN,