Character Proximity For RFID Smart Certificate System A Revolutionary Security Measure To Curb Forgery Menace.

Abstract Generating certificates for the graduating students is an area of administration that requires significant amounts of time and effort in a university environment largely due to the number of students that graduate each year from both the full-time and the part-time studies. Students are expected to complete their clearance manually before receiving graduation certificates this turns out to be very strenuous as much time and effort are wasted in accomplishing such. However the certificate itself is the problem. It is of very low standard and quality little or no integrity very easy to forge and not befitting for an institution such as the University of Ibadan. There is need to make use of vast growing radio Frequency Identification RFID technology to automate the graduation certificate system which would not only standardize the format of the data collected by the university but would also protect and secure the integrity of the universitys graduation certificates reduces administrative work and improve graduates creditability ratios. The objective of the research is to provide an efficient software that can protect the integrity of graduating certificate by embedding an encoded RFID tag using character proximity on each certificate before it is being issued in order to reduce if not eradicate the problem of forgery and fraudulent activities on certificates.