Student Attendance Management System with Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon and Android Devices
The student’s ID card with a built-in IC chip has
beenused for identifying the student electronically for variouspurposes
including registration of attendance in the class-room. In Ibaraki University,
for example, a software productnamedIC card de syussekichosa[1] has been
prepared totake attendance by a PC connected to a card reader. Byscanning the
student’s ID card over the reader, the student’sinformation is registered into
a file in the PC so that heis marked present. The problem with this system is
that itconsumes much time as each student has to do the samestep over and over
again until all the students are registered.We can reduce the time for
attendance registration ifwe use multiple devices in parallel to take
attendance ofstudents. It is our idea to use the students own smartphonesof
which majority has the Android operating system. Inorder not to allow students
to send attendance from outsidethe classroom, we employ a beacon device
compliant withthe bluetooth low energy specifications (referred to as
BLEbeacon) to transmit a magic number to the Android deviceswithin the
classroom. Requesting the magic number to besent together with the student ID,
we can let only thestudents in the classroom to send registration and can
detercheating students.
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