CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
The recent attendance System in institutions has proved to have failed to achieve its major purpose which was to ensure that the right statistics of students that attended the class can be taken. The major reason for its failure among its short-comings is the ability for a student to sign in for another student. Many educational institutions are trying to identify accurate, safe, and reliable techniques to protect access rights to their existing services or operation. Finger print based attendance system is an answer to these concerns.
Biometrics, especially in information technology, encompasses methods to analyze physical and behavioral identities to extract unique features for identification or monitoring purposes. Various physical features including faces, eyes, fingers, hands, veins, ears and teeth can be used by this technology, and characteristics such as gaits or voice patterns are still being investigated and analyzed as part of the wider biometrics field. Biometrics offers secure methods of access to sensitive services and obviates the need to carry a token, card, remember several passwords. Biometric techniques also reduce the risk of lost, forgotten or copied passwords, stolen tokens or over the shoulder attacks, yet despite all this obvious advantages there is still one major reasons why it has not been implemented in many institutions which is that the biometric technique is expensive and the level of standardization differs within systems, numerous health hazards, requirement for a specialist analytical software and availability of machines with the computing power to run it. Fingerprint identification is one of the most well-known and common Biometric identification system, Because of their uniqueness and consistency over time, finger print has been used for identification for many years, more recently becoming automated due to advancement in computing capabilities. The fingerprint system seems to be the most cost effective and easy to use among all of the biometric system with no health side effects.
1.2 Motivation of Study
Punctuality is one of the most important attribute of a good professional, this project is motivated by the desire to bring and enhance professionalism in institutions and institutions.
1.3 Statementof Problem
Traditionally, student attendance is done by signing in and out in a register which leavesgap for impersonation and student sometimes record earlier time when they are late.
1.4 Aim and Objectives of Study
This project is aimed at developing a fingerprint based attendance management system
The objective of these project are to:
1. Design a student attendance system using fingerprint biometric.
2. Implement of the designed system.
3. Test the implemented Student attendance system.
1.5 Scope and Limitation of Study
This project uses fingerprint biometric for time attendance of Federal University of Technology, Minna to makes the task less burdensome and enhance professionalism in institutions.
This project is limited to the fact that the proposed system doesn’t have a centralized database, which means student enrollment will have to be done in their class.
1.6 Significance of Study
The use of student attendance system is very important because of human being proneness to error, leaving the student attendance to write down their names might not be accurate as student attendance can even write attendance for their fellow student attendance and their handwriting legibility can be a case when compiling the attendance record at the end of the month.
The official in charge of attendance collation is highly favored by this system because use of pen and paper as a means of collating student attendance will leave the official in charge with numerous sheet of paper, which will be hectic as he/she have to start comparing several sheet to record the average attendance for just a student. The official is going to waste a lot of time compiling the attendance percentage at the end of the month, mistake can creep in due to the large volumes of papers
Successful implementation of this project mean the student attendance credibility can be queried or put to test anytime, and result are produce fast and accuracy, without stress.