Java Based RFID Attendance
Management System
A graduation project for the future..
Supervised by
Prof.Dr.Hesham Arafat Ali

Agenda
●Introduction
● A problem to solve and a solution.
● System purpose
● System features.
● Where?
● Used tools
●Phases
● Planning, gathering information phase
● Design, Application and Database Design
● Implementation
● Testing
●Future applicable extensions
●A Thank you! Word and Questions

Introduction
Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohammed

Introduction: System Purpose
●The purpose of this project is to develop an
automated class attendance checking system
for each and every lecture room in the
university.

Introduction: Where?

Introduction: Key Technology
●The primary technology to be used is Radio
Frequency Identification technology or RFID
●A system of identification wherein an electronic
device that uses radio frequency or magnetic
field variations to communicate is attached to
an item.
●Why RFID?
1. Alignment is not necessary.
2. High inventory speeds.
3. Variety of form factors.
4. Item-level tracking.
5. Rewritability (This depends on the type of
the Tag).

Introduction: Used Tools
●RFID, The Key Technology
●Linux, The Base Operating System
●JAVA, Application logic and the middle-ware
●MySQL, The Back-end Database
●GWT, Google Web Toolkit

Planning & Analysis
Eman Mahmoud Abdel Fattah

Planning
● We believe that the best way to get a good
working application is to give enough time for
planning and designing.
● In our planning phase,we passed through the
following..

Know the scale and working environment
● large number of students ,class rooms and teaching
stuff.
● Limited resources.
Searching for suitable RFID-Reader to work
efficiently with minimum cost.
● System has to be scalable

Analysis: Technical
- H/W requirements:
– RFID-Readers
– Tags
– Server machine
- S/W requirements:
– Linux Operating System
– Database
– Apache web server
- Who uses the system:
– Students
– Teachers
– Professors

System Analysis
The system should be divided into 3 modules
- The RFID module
for using the RFID-Reader.
- The Database module
for recording the attendance.
- The View module
to view recorded attendance.

Analysis: Economic
● Initial costs
● RFID-Reader: 500 EGP for each Classroom
● RFID-Tag for each student
● Running costs
● Electricity cost
● Maintenance cost

Application & Database Design
Eman Sa'ad El-Dien El-Zahy

Design
As in the planning phase we have 3
modules
- The RFID module
- The Database module
- The View module

RFID
Designing Java classes which function is:
● When students pass through the
RFID-Reader with their ID-cards,The RFID-
Reader reads the ID of each student
passes and sends it to the server for
processing .
● The server takes the ID of the student,
process it and record the attendance in the
database.

Database
● Included two phases:
1- Designing the Database
– creating tables that mirrors the structure of the
environment and the relations between these
tables.
– Normalizing tables.
2- Designing Database Java classes:
– Classes that records the attendance data in the
database.
– Classes that retrieves the attendance data to view
it using the systems' GUI.

View
● Designing login form to check authentication.
● Designing needed forms for possible users of the
system depending on the permissions given to
each type of users (professor,TA,student).

The Environment
Moustafa Mahmoud Al-Sherbiny

The Environment: Linux
● We use Linux as the base OS for our server
● In spite of that , Our Software is tested under
Microsoft Windows. And can be deployed on
any other platform that supports Java

The Environment: Why Linux?
• Mainly , It is free
– FREE of charge.
– FREE source
– Rapid development
– More Secure.
• Security
–User Privileges
–No Executables
–No Registry
• Stability.
• Multi-User , Networked OS

The Environment: Java
• Java is an Open Source Object Oriented
Programming Language.
• Platform independent
• Secure
• Simple
• Multi-Threaded
• Distributed

The Environment: MySQL
• Relational database management system
(RDBMS)
• Providing multiuser access to a number of
databases
• Works on many different system platforms

The Environment: GWT Google Web ToolKit
• A JAVA to JavaScript cross-compiler
•It takes Java code and compiles it into JavaScript
to be run in a browser with AJAX style
• GWT-RPC : A technology used to remotely
invoke code component from remote server

Implementation
Amal Abdel Naby Al-Shihaby

Implementation: Reader API
● We create a class that will listen to the
reader and if the reader read a tag it
will capture this ID and the time of
Attendance

View: Login Interface
● The client will send this information
to the server using RPC to check if this
user is authenticated.

View: Student Interface
● For student he can view only his
attendance.

View: Professor Interface
● For professors ,each one can view
attendance in his subjects.

View: Teacher Interface
● Switch on/off interface
● View student attendance
● View section attendance

Teacher: Reader Interface
● The teacher can switch on/off the
reader from the interface

Model
● We create number of classes that will
execute the query on the database
and return the required data.

Controller
● Google Web Toolkit provides us with
some of tools like RPC package.
● We used this package to connect the
view with the model

Future Extensions
Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohammed

Future Extensions
● Email integration and notification
● SMS integration and cooperation
● Cooperation with university's current
system, proxy and email accounts
● Bullet-in boards, forums and
presentations views.
● Classes Assignments
● Sections Cancellation

Question?

Thanks!