A Wireless Sensor Network for Examination Attendance Management System

Every academic institute has special concerns for student’s attendance in examination halls. At present, in developing countries attendance is usually taken using paper sheets and the old file system. The effectiveness of this style is low because it is highly labor-intensive, error-prone, susceptible to examination malpractices, time wastage, data manipulation, and impersonation among others. On the other hand, Wireless Sensor Network is concerned with using sensors technology to acquire, store, trace and transfer examination attendance data to the host computer for report generation and data analysis.

The system uses fingerprint recognition as well as Wireless Sensors technique for obtaining student’s examination attendance, porter registration of courses and tuition payment clearance. The design was achieved with the system divided into units of operation and each unit is designed as a single entity and later combined into a whole.

The proposed solution is limited to four nodes and a server. The nodes can communicate with the Server via signaling. The transmitter used is connected to a fingerprint interface unit and a database server and can only transmit through a distance of approximately 100metres.The four nodes were arranged using a star topology network.