Prepared for Mobilcase 2012 conference. Presented at UTEM University, Malaysia by Ali Mohammad Hossein Zadeh, 2012.

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

11. Mobile App Work Flow

12. New Work Flow

13. Requirements
• Android Wi-Fi enabled mobile
• Internet Connection
• At least 3 Access Points to cover the area

14. MMULBAS – First Lunch

15. MMULBAS – Register

16. MMULBAS – Reinstall

17. MMULBAS – About

18. MMULBAS – Help

19. MMULBAS

20. MMULBAS – Mobile Website

21. MMULBAS – Mobile Website

22. MMULBAS – Mobile Website

23. MMULBAS – Mobile Website

24. MMULBAS – Mobile Website

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.

26. Q&A

27. Спасибо
Thank You ありがとう
Dank
Grazie
Terima kasih
고마워 谢谢
Gracias