RFID and Raspberry Pi based Attendance System Using Face Recognition

Abstract

To Usually, schools have an attendance system where they are recorded manually by the teachers.  Later this data is entered into a computer and the aggregate percentage of student’s attendance is calculated. This method results in duplication of work and increases manpower requirements. Recently, student’s attendance has been considered as one of the crucial elements or issues that reflects the academic achievements and the performance contributed to any school authorities compared to the traditional methods that impose time-consuming and inefficiency. Raspberry Pi microprocessors can be used to interface with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) reader to save user information and time to an SD (Storage Device) card. The reader can also emit radio frequency signals that are received by RFID tags, which then transmit their unique identification numbers. RFID is a wireless technology which uses to a purpose of identifying and tracking an object via radio waves to transfer data from an electronic tag, called RFID tag or label to send data to RFID reader, then immediately web camera starts to recognise the face of the student and marks his/her attendance. This Raspberry Pi based project is for reducing manpower and implementing automation of attendance system and furthermore being beneficial for the schools or any other workplace.