Attendance is the term which means appearing at or
being present at the desired location. Attendance can
be of anything like the attendance in function,
attendance in schools, attendance of students in
colleges or the attendance of employees at their work
place. The attendance can be marked in many ways.
It can be marked through pen and paper, or many of
the technologies like the barcode, biometric, RFID
etc. All these technologies uses the near range and
accordingly marks the attendance once the barcode
comes in contact with the barcode scanner, or
whenever the fingerprint is scanned through the
biometric device, or the RFID tag flashes on the
RFID reader respectively. But taking into
consideration the drawbacks of all these systems we
are proposing the system which uses the new
technology as iBeacon. It reduces the time of
marking attendance in all the ways. The main aim is
to build the green and fast India.
Original Title
Survey on iBeacon Based Smart Attendance Monitoring and Management System
Attendance is the term which means appearing at or
being present at the desired location. Attendance can
be of anything like the attendance in function,
attendance in schools, attendance of students in
colleges or the attendance of employees at their work
place. The attendance can be marked in many ways.
It can be marked through pen and paper, or many of
the technologies like the barcode, biometric, RFID
etc. All these technologies uses the near range and
accordingly marks the attendance once the barcode
comes in contact with the barcode scanner, or
whenever the fingerprint is scanned through the
biometric device, or the RFID tag flashes on the
RFID reader respectively. But taking into
consideration the drawbacks of all these systems we
are proposing the system which uses the new
technology as iBeacon. It reduces the time of
marking attendance in all the ways. The main aim is
to build the green and fast India.
Attendance is the term which means appearing at or
being present at the desired location. Attendance can
be of anything like the attendance in function,
attendance in schools, attendance of students in
colleges or the attendance of employees at their work
place. The attendance can be marked in many ways.
It can be marked through pen and paper, or many of
the technologies like the barcode, biometric, RFID
etc. All these technologies uses the near range and
accordingly marks the attendance once the barcode
comes in contact with the barcode scanner, or
whenever the fingerprint is scanned through the
biometric device, or the RFID tag flashes on the
RFID reader respectively. But taking into
consideration the drawbacks of all these systems we
are proposing the system which uses the new
technology as iBeacon. It reduces the time of
marking attendance in all the ways. The main aim is
to build the green and fast India.
Shubham Jain, Shraddha Kannurkar, Shweta Kale shubhamujain@gmail.com, shraddhak0697@gmail.com, shwetakale29@gmail.com Department of Computer Engineering AISSMS IOIT, Pune-01.
Abstract 2. Biometric: The Biometric System is based on
Attendance is the term which means appearing at or fingerprints, iris, and facial gestures etc. which are being present at the desired location. Attendance can unique for every individual and are stored in the be of anything like the attendance in function, database. When an individual scans his fingerprint on attendance in schools, attendance of students in or face in front of the Biometric device, it checks colleges or the attendance of employees at their work with the database in order to confirm the identity of place. The attendance can be marked in many ways. an individual. The attendance of the person is marked It can be marked through pen and paper, or many of automatically as soon as the fingerprint or face the technologies like the barcode, biometric, RFID matches with the database. etc. All these technologies uses the near range and 3. Online Attendance System: The online Attendance accordingly marks the attendance once the barcode System requires an active Internet Connection to comes in contact with the barcode scanner, or mark the attendance. When an individual who has to whenever the fingerprint is scanned through the mark the attendance comes in the range of that Wi-Fi biometric device, or the RFID tag flashes on the modem or router, it gets connected to that device and RFID reader respectively. But taking into the attendance is marked. consideration the drawbacks of all these systems we are proposing the system which uses the new 4. Barcode: A Barcode is a machine-readable technology as iBeacon. It reduces the time of representation of information in a visual format. A marking attendance in all the ways. The main aim is barcode consists of parallel, adjacent bars and spaces. to build the green and fast India. In Barcode based Attendance System, a barcode is at the backside of individuals ID card. This barcode Introduction consist of unique data of an individual such as name, Nowadays, individuals’ attendance has become an roll number, branch and year etc. A person can scan important evaluation aspect in every sector such as his/her barcode to mark the attendance. schools, colleges, workplaces etc. Generally the attendance is marked using many technologies as By taking into consideration the drawbacks of all RFID, Biometric, Barcode, online attendance system these systems such as wastage of time in marking the etc. A brief introduction of various technologies attendance, use of internet connection, human mentioned above is discussed as follows: intervention, less efficiency etc. we are proposing the system which is based on the iBeacon technology 1. RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification): RFID is a which works on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). wireless technology which consists of the RFID reader and RFID tag which has electromagnetic iBeacon Technology: This technology was developed waves to collect the stored information automatically. by Apple in 2013. It is based on BLE. BLE is Active, Passive and Semi-Passive tags are the three wireless personal area network technology which is major types of RFID tags. RFID is uniquely also known as Bluetooth Smart. iBeacon has given identified as well as traced. To mark the attendance, mobile application the ability to understand the RFID tag should be flashed on the RFID reader in position where they actually are on micro-local scale order to confirm unique identity. Once the unique and gives the content to receiver which is based on RFID tag is matched with the saved data in the the location. The two simple things are required for database. the communication of iBeacon and they are:
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a) A broadcaster(Bluetooth based iBeacon device) and b) A receiver(Android/iOS device with an app)
The Broadcaster is continuously broadcasting the
signals, as soon as the receiver comes in the immediate proximity, it receives the signal and responds accordingly.
Fig.1 iBeacon
Literature Survey disadvantage of system is that the actual location of
Jeongyeup Paek, et al [1] proposed “Geometric each iBeacon is not known, it has to be assumed. Adjustment Scheme for Indoor Location-Based Mobile Applications”. The original goal of this Mr. Sehul A. Thakkar, et al [5] proposed “an research was to develop an improved Indoor iBeacon: Newly Emerged Technology for Positioning positioning system using iBeacon technologies. The and Tracking in Indoor Place”. The importance of advantage of this system is that it allows a mobile iBeacon technology is that it is used for indoor device to detect its proximity to an iBeacon station positioning and tracking. It is used to track the (and possibly its location) by knowing how close it is location of a person. For instance, it can be used to to (usually wall-mounted) low complexity, low-cost locate and track any valuable asset, where it is BLE transmitters, the iBeacons. actually located and where it moves from one place to other place. Germ‘an H. Flores, et al [2] proposed “An iBeacon Rahul More, et al [6] proposed a RFID based student Training App for Indoor Fingerprinting”. They have attendance monitoring system. Initially, students’ introduced a novel approach to streamline the process partial attendance is marked as student swap the I- of collecting training data for the fingerprinting card on RFID reader. Then teacher login for the indoor localization technique. The training data can lecture with lecture ID, and OTP is given to students be collected from a Bluetooth-enabled iOS client by orally or written, after entering this OTP into their device and requires no complex graphical maps since android mobile and the student attendance is marked we only need the x-y location where the iBeacon completely. The advantage of this system is to solve training data was collected. The disadvantage is the the attendance problem and get the information of app is not universally compatible. students at any time and limitation of the system is Md Sayedul Aman, et al [3] proposed “Reliability that it requires human intervention and it is also time- Evaluation of iBeacon for Micro-Localization”. This consuming. paper shows the implementation through RSSI values. The distance versus RSSI data was plotted to Srinidhi MB, et al [7] proposed a “Web enabled show the unexpected behavior of RSSI for distance secured system for attendance monitoring and real less than 2m. The advantage is that the algorithm time location tracking using Biometric and radio which is used requires very simple approach. frequency identification (RFID) technology”. The regularity of the child will be informed to parents through the SMS services. The main advantage is that Zhenghua Chen, et al [4] proposed “Smartphone the graph is generated which gives the information Inertial Sensor Based Indoor Localization and about the regularity of student. But the disadvantage Tracking with iBeacon Corrections”. The position of this system is that it requires the hardware devices estimated by WiFi fingerprinting based approach is fused with PDR to reduce its drifting error. The like RFID, Biometric which increases the cost. advantage of the system utilize both gyroscope Vishal Bhalla, et al [8] has proposed Bluetooth Based and magnetometer to estimate the walking direction Attendance Management System. In the proposed of user and it is more power efficient. The system, the staff’s mobile is used for taking the attendance. The technology used is Bluetooth which
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works in the range of approximately 10m. In this Reconstruction Technique”. This system can be used paper it is used to connect the devices to the staff’s by the entire college like staff and students even mobile phone by using the Bluetooth. On connecting administrator as well. It works on the Biometric. The we can find whether the particular student is present following system takes the input as fingerprint which in class or not. The problem in the proposed system is is always persistent and accordingly it marks the student's phone is required for attendance. attendance. The disadvantage of this system is that it consumes lot of time in marking the attendance. Josphineleela.R, et al [9] proposed “An Efficient Automatic Attendance System using Fingerprint
Technologies Parameters RFID [7] Barcode NFC Bluetooth[8]
Range Minimum Long range Approx. up to Approx. 100m
distance barcode scanner greater than or 320 feet for over that enables 20 cm class 1 1Meter or them to read 1D, 3 feet 2D barcode up to 50 feet
Conclusion attendance, use of internet connection, human In this paper, smart attendance monitoring and intervention, less efficiency etc. therefore to management system has been proposed. In the past, overcome all the pitfalls in all these technologies we attendance monitoring systems have been developed are proposing smart attendance monitoring system using various technologies like RFID, Barcode, which is based on iBeacon and which will overcome Biometric etc. but all these technologies have certain all the drawbacks. It will also be helpful in detecting the fake attendance.
Soh, "Smartphone Inertial Sensor Based Indoor Localization and Tracking with iBeacon Corrections", DOI 10.1109/TII.2016.2579265, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
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