In this paper we design a system which takes student attendance and the attendance records are maintained automatically in an academic institute. Taking the attendance manually and maintaining its record till end of year (or even beyond) is very difficult job as well as wastage of time and paper. This necessitates an efficient system that would be fully automatic. Top level design of the system includes marking attendance with the help of a fingerprint sensor module and saving the records to a computer or server. Fingerprint sensor module and LCD screen are portable although they can also be fixed to a location for e.g. entry/ exit points. To begin with, a student needs to be registered in the fingerprint sensor module. Thereafter every time the student attends a lecture he/ she will place his/her finger on the fingerprint sensor module. The fingerprint sensor module will update the attendance record in database. The student can see the notification on LCD screen.

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