A Proposed GSM Biometric Attendance Management System for Ghana Education

The purpose of this research is to implement interactive and reliable attendance management using GSM/GPRS signal to transfer and retrieve data from remote locations in Ghana tested with alert and management functionality on real time. It also discussed the technological approach in automating subject and attendance administration in the schools and also ascertained the business success with attendance management systems for Ghana education service. Rapid application development (RAD) software development methodology was deployed to build the Biometric Attendance System (BAS). The BAS was designed and implemented. The system provides users with an efficient way of generating reports and retrieving of attendance information of a teacher in specific districts. It supports unified access and management through a simple standard web browser interface. It is recommended that evaluation of the system be carried out in future works to ascertain the success of the system.