Automatic attendance recording system using mobile telephone

These days, instructors in universities and colleges take the attendance manually either by calling out individual´s name or by passing around an attendance sheet for student´s signature to confirm his/her presence. Using these methods is both cumbersome and time-consuming. Therefore a method of taking attendance using instructor´s mobile telephone has been presented in this paper which is paperless, quick, and accurate. An application software installed in the instructor´s mobile telephone enables it to query students´ mobile telephone via Bluetooth connection and, through transfer of students´ mobile telephones´ Media Access Control (MAC) addresses to the instructor´s mobile telephone, presence of the student can be confirmed. Moreover, detailed record of a student´s attendance can also be generated for printing and filing, if needed.