Attendance Management System

Team Synergy:

• Akshay Sonvane
• Madhur Khandelwal
• Seema Rohilla
• Siddharth Daftari

Objective:

To create a an automated system that eliminates the manual process of attendance management.

System Components:

1. Raspberry Pi
2. Android App
3. Django web application server
4. MySQL Database

System Architecture Diagram:

Features implemented:

• Fault tolerant using replication of Raspberry Pi.
• Dynamic leader election.
• Notification via playback of a short musical note for each attendance marked.
• Energy effecient mode; activates bluetooth scan only during class timing, by pulling class timings from the server periodically.
• Rapberry Pi denies service to unauthorized students.(i.e. students who have not yet registered for that class)
• E-Mail system integrated within the application for professor/authorised person.
• Google OAuth used, no need to remember passwords or re-register.
• Connection between android and Raspberry Pi using RFCOMM protocol.
• Android app dynamically obtains the MAC address from the server before marking the attendance.
• Protection against SQL injection on server side.
• Followed MTV (Model Template View) architecture on the server.