Mobile Based Student Attendance System Using Geo-Fencing With Timing and Face Recognition

Abstract

Developing an effective attendance management system has always been a difficult issue for any company, ranging from schools to universities. Smartphones have been used for attendance with technologies such as face recognition, fingerprint-based attendance, and other types. The attendance management system (AMS) and its problems are discussed in this study. The study presents a student attendance system for schools and colleges combining Geo Fencing using the geofencing API from Google Play services and Google location services dependencies along with Firebase and Geofire dependencies and Face Recognition functionality. This is performed by acquiring live location of students and a geo-fence of the class area, the system also performs a face recognition for pre-registered student and attendance is automatically taken when a student has spent over 90% of the time within the set geo-fence (Classroom). This system was developed using Android Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which is being used for the development of native android applications. A questionnaire was however designed and results gotten to further explain how well the functionalities work. The responses derived were subjected to statistical examination using SPSS. Discoveries showed that attendance system was able to improve identification, verification and accuracy of student attendance. Keywords: Attendance, Geo-fence, Face Detection, Global Position System, Barcode, Database