Attendance Management System for Educational Sector: Critical Review

To maintain the attendance records, several government organisations and educational institutions in many countries still depend on the paper-based attendance approach. This approach has presented several disadvantages such as time-consuming and wastage of environmental resources. There is a necessity to change these traditional methods of attendance recording with more efficient ones. Thus, many works have been done in this direction. Moreover, this study aims to analyse the most recent studies on automated attendance systems regarding the timeline. Our critical review has highlighted studies in the existing literature concerning technology, application domain, and main findings. Moreover, shed light on most numerous studies on any of three previous aspects.