Networked RFID attendance management system

Abstract

Traditional attendance system such as attendance taking using attendance sheet and punch card system are prone to human error, wasting resource and unable to track users walking path. Therefore, the main objective of this project is to replace the traditional attendance system to networked RFID attendance management system that able to track, monitor and record the attendance and movement of employees in real-time using web based system. Two different approaches of RFID reader are implemented in this project. First approach is using interactive transaction-based, the RFID tag ID will received from RS232 communication port. Another approach is an embedded control system where the serial data will be transmitted by USB to computer. The data retrieved by C# are attached with the timestamp and coordinate of the reader. Then, the data is uploaded to MySQL database. The aim is to record the employee’s attendances more efficiency. This connection facilitates the administrative team, where administrator are able to monitor employee’s attendance records and tracking employee current position whenever the admin is accessing internet server. Employees are accessing difference interface compared to administrator. They only allows to check or print their attendance. This system is a real-time attendance system and the administrators will receive the latest location of the employee with real-time timestamp.