Efficient and Smart Attendance System using Wi-Fi

Marking attendance in any organization used to be troublesome due to use of pen and paper scheme. Until today, most lecturers in universities are found still using the conventional methods of taking students' attendance either by calling out the student names or by passing around an attendance sheet for students to sign confirming their presence. In addition to the time-consuming issue, such method is also at higher risk of having students cheating about their attendance, especially in a large classroom. Therefore a method of taking attendance by employing an application running on the Android platform is proposed in this project. This application, once installed the student list can be provided individually or from already created excel sheet. Based on the provided list of students, the professor android hotspot used to connect the present student device wifi. Professor android device will then act like a scanner to scan each of the student android device MAC address using wifi manager class, to one by one confirm and verify the student's presence. The updated attendance list is then stored locally in the respective professor's android device. And can also be saved as a file to be transferred to a PC later on. This system will help to eliminate the current problems, while also promoting a paperless environment at the same time. Since this application can be deployed on lecturers' own existing Android devices, no additional hardware cost is required.