TouchIn: An NFC Supported Attendance System in a University Environment

Abstract

Abstract-Registering for attendance in education environments especially universities is a highly demanding activity as a result of increasing number of students. The attendance process normally involves circulating a paper for the students to register their names, or the lecturer calling the names and registering the students either in a paper or from PDA/PC. In the first case the students' attention may be attracted while taking the lectures and at the same time they can register for students who do not being present in the class. While in the latter case the issue of cheating in the form of registering for their friends can be solved but imaging the number of students to be from 50 and above, a great portion of the lecture time will be wasted performing this process. In this paper we propose a smart attendance system using NFC that will simplify the attendance process, by simply touching an attendance poster or the lecturer's NFC based mobile device in the class.Index Terms-NFC technology, NFC mobile application smart attendance system, touching based system, wireless attendance system.

The Effect of the Internet of Things (IoT) on Education Business Model

“…Energy operators can also monitor and manage energy consumption of the campus centrally. Routine tasks such as student attendance registration which have traditionally been time consuming [26] could be replaced by automatic registration systems to simplify the process and release lecture time.…”

Uso de tarjeta universitaria y tecnología móvil para el control de acceso a instalaciones universitarias ysu posterior análisis en términos de rendimiento académico y control de asistencia en clase - [Use of university card and mobile technology to study and improve academic performance and class attendance control]

“…Ejemplos de este uso incluye el desarrollado por la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (Fernández, Fernández, Aguilar, Selvi, & Crespo, 2013) o el sistema TouchIn (Ayu & Ahmad, 2014). No obstante, en el contexto del control de asistencia a clase estas no son las únicas iniciativas ya que la prensa se ha hecho eco de otras iniciativas en otros centros como la Universidad de Salamanca (Wayerless, 2012) usando NFC o la Universidad de Malaga mediante un sistema biométrico (Ciencia explicada, 2011).…”

Bluetooth Düşük Enerji Teknolojisine Sahip İşaretçi ve Akıllı Telefon Temelli Öğrenci Yoklama Sistemi

“…Öğrenci sayısının çok olduğu büyük sınıflarda yoklama işlemi oldukça zaman almaktadır. Yoklamadan kaynaklanan süre kayıplarını ortadan kaldırmak veya en aza indirmek amacıyla günümüzde yoklama işlemi akıllı kart, radyo frekansı ile tanımlama (Radio Frequency IDentification, RFID) [1,2], yakın alan haberleşmesi (Near Field Communication, NFC) [3], akıllı telefon uygulamaları [4] vb. birçok farklı teknolojik altyapı kullanılarak otomatik bir şekilde gerçekleştirilmektedir.…”