Attendance management system

In today´s era regardless of the field of study or preference for defining data (quantitative, qualitative), accurate data collection is essential for maintaining the integrity of research. Selection of appropriate method and the device used for data acquisition reduces chances of errors occurring. Proposed system has a small handy hardware, a remote server and software components for acquisition of data manually or from sensors electronically. It could be used in doing survey´s, closed loop control monitoring systems in industries, hospitals, attendance management system of schools and colleges etc. This paper presents a design and framework for taking attendance in schools and colleges, for making troublesome process of taking and compiling of attendance simple and efficient. As its targeted users are educational institutes where there is a requirement of affordable, user friendly, portable, energy efficient and secure automated system. Hence this prototype provides an amalgamated solution for replacing existing conventional attendance system with embedded attendance system. Main advantages are its very low cost, small size, efficient with low energy consumption.