Bluetooth Students' Attendance Verified by Fingerprint Sensor

Recordingstudents' attendance using the conventional way is tedious and does not preventany
attemptsof cheating. Attendance ofstudents in class has been a major componentin evaluating
students' performance in academic. Thus, the attendance must be recorded correctly and
systematically. Students' attendance using Bluetooth is designed not only to avoid any attempts
of cheating but to provide comfort for students to mark their attendances and to ease the
lecturers in keeping the record. A student needs to enter his or her student's matric number on
a wireless keypad which utilizing Bluetooth technology. The input from keypad is processed
by a Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) and displayed through a Liquid Crystal Display
(LCD).The data is then sent to the computervia a stand-alone Bluetooth. Visual Basic 6.0 is a
softwareused to process the data received via Bluetooth. Randomfingerprint verification using
a fingerprint sensor is done after all students have key in their students' matric number
wirelessly to ensure no attempts of cheating and the students' matric numbers are entered by
designated students only. The scope of study involves keypad, PIC, Bluetooth and Visual
Basic. This project was focusing on creating a wireless fingerprint sensor for recording
students' attendance but wireless keypad is constructed as an alternative due to cost and
technology constraints. However, this new project also serves the same purpose as the original
idea and eases the system of recording the students' attendance by adding in some touch of
latest technology