ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING BIOMETRIC FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGY (FAT)

This Final Year Project Part II final report concerns with the approach to an
online system called Attendance Management System using Biometric Fingerprint
Authentication Technology (FAT) proposed for Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. In
current system, students' attendance is tracked manually using attendance sheet. The
paper will be passed around and students are required to sign on it. Later, lecturer will
check the paper and mark onthe empty column. Basically, the system is proposed so that
it can capture student's daily attendance accurately because it will use fingerprint as the
main input to access the system. It can help to enable the lecturer to reduce the buddy
signed on and unauthorized attendance. This system will involve some hardware devices
such as fingerprint reader and also some software to support this system. It is developed
mainly using PHP and MySQL. The system can be seen as reliable andconvenient since
fingerprint authentication is oneof the most reliable authentication methods. This system
is built so that it can solve the problem occurred with the current system and provide
more accuratestudent daily attendance details for future used.