Design of students’ attendance system based on mobile indoor location
1. Design of Students’
Attendance system based
on mobile indoor location
Ali Mohammad Hossein Zadeh
Dr. Ah-Cho Koo
Hajar Ghadirian Najafabadi
2. Outline
• Why attendance?
• Attendance systems
o Fingerprint
o RFID
o Clickers
• Indoor Positioning Systems
• Methodology
• MMULBAS
3. Why Attendance?
• More class attendance => higher grades
• A strong correlation between absence from the first
day of class and overall result (Yao & Chiang, 2011)
• GPA is significantly correlated with attendance
(Broucek & Bass, 2011, Credé, Roch, & Kieszczynka,
2010)
4. Attendance Systems
• Image processing technique to read the
attendance list data (Nawaz, Assad, & Khalil, 2010)
• Web based application to save students’
attendance data (Mar & Lancaster, 2005)
5. Fingerprint
• Fingerprint sensor, LCD, Server (Nawaz, Pervaiz,
Korrani, & Azhar-ud-din., 2009)
• Send Absent SMS (Shafi, Khan, Munir, & Baloch,
2010)
• Wireless System (Zhang & Ji, 2006)
6. RFID
• Radio Frequency Identification
• Readers and Tags (Chawla & Dong Sam, 2007)
• 2KB information on tag microchip
(Kassem, Hamad, Chalhoub, & El Dahdaah, 2010)
• Concern about student’s privacy (Silva, Filipe, &
Pereira, 2008)
7. Clickers
• Class Response System
• Since 1960 (Judson & Sawada, 2002)
• A software for lecturers to design their questions,
A clicker for students to send their answers
A receiver to receive responses to the software
(Kaleta & Joosten, 2007)
8. Indoor Positioning Systems
• Global Positioning System (GPS) is suitable for
outdoor (Ungrangsi, Trachtenberg, & Starobinski,
2004)
• An indoor location-based service (Kuo-Fong, Liao, &
Jia-Siang, 2010)
9. Methodology
Media Access Control
(MAC)
AP
received signal
strength indicator
RSSI
10. System Design
MySQL
Server
Android PHP
Mobile Web
App Interface
AP AP
AP
25. Refrences
• Broucek, W. G., & Bass, W. (2011). Attendance feedback in an academic setting: Preliminary results. College
Teaching Methods & Styles Journal (CTMS), 4(1), 45-48.
• Chawla, V., & Dong Sam, H. (2007). An overview of passive RFID. Communications Magazine, IEEE, 45(9), 11-17.
• Credé, M., Roch, S. G., & Kieszczynka, U. M. (2010). Class attendance in college. Review of Educational Research,
80(2), 272-295. doi: 10.3102/0034654310362998
• Judson, E., & Sawada, D. (2002). Learning from past and present: electronic response systems in college lecture
halls. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 21(2), 167-182.
• Kaleta, R., & Joosten, T. (2007). Student response systems. Research Bulletin, 2007(10), 2.
• Kassem, A., Hamad, M., Chalhoub, Z., & El Dahdaah, S. (2010, 12-15 Dec). An RFID attendance and monitoring
system for university applications. Paper presented at the Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS).
• Kuo-Fong, K., Liao, I. E., & Jia-Siang, L. (2010, 15-17 Sept. 2010). An indoor location-based service using access
points as signal strength data collectors. Paper presented at the Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN),
2010 International Conference on.
• Mar, L., & Lancaster, G. (2005). Attendance system. Learning & Teaching in Action, 4(1).
• Nawaz, T., Assad, A., & Khalil, Z. (2010). Fully automated attendance record system using template matching
technique. International Journal of Engineering & Technology IJET-IJENS, 10(3), 57-64.
• Nawaz, T., Pervaiz, S., Korrani, A., & Azhar-ud-din. (2009). Development of academic attendence monitoring
system using fingerprint Identification. IJCSNS, 9(5), 5.
• Shafi, Q., Khan, J., Munir, N., & Baloch, N. K. (2010, 1-3 Aug. 2010). Fingerprint verification over the network and its
application in attendance management. Paper presented at the Electronics and Information Engineering (ICEIE),
2010 International Conference On.
• Silva, F., Filipe, V., & Pereira, A. (2008). Automatic control of students' attendance in classrooms using RFID
International Conference On Systems and Networks Communications (pp. 384-389). Malta: IEEE.
• Ungrangsi, R., Trachtenberg, A., & Starobinski, D. (2004). An implementation of indoor location detection systems
based on identifying codes. Intelligence in Communication Systems, 175-189.
• Yao, J. F. J., & Chiang, T. M. (2011). Correlation between class attendance and grade. Journal of Computing
Sciences in Colleges, 27(2), 142-147.
• Zhang, Y., & Ji, L. (2006). The design of wireless fingerprint attendance system. Paper presented at the International
Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT'06), Handan, Hebei, China.