BIOMETRIC BASED ATTENDANCE REGISTRATION AND CONSOLIDATION SYSTEM USING RASPBERRY PI3 AND AMAZON WEB SERVER

Conventionally, in schools and colleges, attendance is taken by the teacher by calling students names or roll numbers, mark his or hers presence or absence in the attendance register. Later attendance is fed into a computer and the attendance percentage is calculated using software in offline mode. This method is time consuming and also requires more man power. In this project, a portable Biometric based Attendance Registration and Consolidation System (BARCS) using Raspberry Pi3 and Amazon Web Server is developed. This handheld biometric attendance registration device can be carried by the teacher to the classroom to register the student's attendance of a particular session through circulation among students. At the end of a session, attendance data gets stored in a database in the Raspberry Pi computer. Then, Pi computes the subject wise attendance percentage and sends it to the Amazon web server for uploading on the developed webpage. The user can view the subject wise attendance by accessing the webpage. Also an SMS is sent to the students mobile when their attendance gets registered. The developed system is intended for programmes wherein students have to meet the minimum attendance requirements in each subject of the programme in a particular semester/year