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Biometric Attendance System with Compromised

Circuitry using IoT
P. Ravi Sankar1, T. D. Veerendra Reddy2, P. V. V. G. R. N. Sai Lokesh3, S. Santhi4, G. Srinivasu5, P. Suresh6
1
Asssistant Professor, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6UG Scholar, Electronics and Communication Engineering, V.S.M. College of Engineering,
Ramachandrapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Abstract: Day by Day, the concept of smart and value of time are widely increasing in every work we do and at every place.
Considering some commercial organizations and Educational Institutions, we modified some existing biometric attendance
systems and enabled IoT using open-source internet platform boards to collect the presence of an individual in an organization
or in any kind of educational institution. The improved technology of open source internet boards and various Display modules
enabled us to feature our project as a Biometric Attendance System with Compromised Circuitry using IoT. The following paper
explains the overview of the project using some flowcharts and a wide future scope of the project.
Keywords: Phrases-- Biometric Attendance System, Use of SDA, Use of SCL, Open Source Internet Board, esp8266, Internet of
Things (IoT), OLED Module, SPI, I2C Protocol.

I. INTRODUCTION
Earlier technologies like RFID, are used for making attendance of an individual presence in an organization or educational
institution. And still at places like toll gates still these RFID cards are widely used with upgraded strong RFID signal receivers and
invisible nano RFID. But it is hard to maintain such systems in any organization where their use allows them to commit different
anti-purpose usage by the same or a different individual of that respective RFID tag. To bypass those acts Fingerprints came to rise
to be the best option in the present days. The reason behind this is, fingerprints are unique from person to person and the deeply
involved technology behind their recognition made biometric identification systems more secure compared to RFID technology.
And the combination of improved technology in open-sourced internet boards and display modules, with these biometric systems,
made our project circuitry compromised.

A. Biometric Sensors and Recognition

Biometric Identification Systems are widely used for the unique identification of humans. Fingerprints are also used as a form of
access control. So the use of fingerprints in the student attendance management system is a secure approach. A fingerprint contains
pattern of ridges on its surface tip. The tips of those ridges are called minutiae. It is a widely accepted assumption that the minutiae
pattern of each finger is unique and does not change during one’s life. And the minutiae pattern of every finger for each human is
different and with the help of Digital Image Processing and concepts of Total Internal Reflection the pattern recognition will be
stored and one to many algorithm is used to identify a user fingerprint to mark his attendance. There are two types of scanners. An
optical scanner works Total internal Reflection phenomenon and collects its Bitmap. The scanner manufacturers a light sensor
attached with a digital image sensor that processes bitmapping of finger. The computer analyzes the finger tip on the scanner and

Fig. 1 Bitmap pattern recognition of a fingerprint

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The image processor starts to make bit pattern and a bitmap code serially. And it is known as Bitmap coding, which is encrypted in
the form of 1’s and 0’s of any image that is in monochromatic form. The second one is known as a capacitive scanner, measures
your finger electrically, that is it stores the picture of our fingerprint and gains access through, measuring distances between them.
Mobiles phones we are using are examples of capacitive touch biometric sensors. In our project we are using an optical sensor
which enables us to get user data to be stored in 1:1 ratio and enables the processor to search in 1: N ratio.
The fingerprint recognition can be explained simply using total internal reflection concept. The light behind the glass of fingerprint
sensor undergoes total internal reflection and will help to recognize the bit pattern of the finger and the internal rom of any
fingerprint sensor will store the scanned bit image in 1:1 ratio and helps when system started to check the placed fingerprint of a
user in 1:N ratio.

Fig. 2 Concept of fingerprint recognition (total internal reflection) inside a optical scanner

Some optical sensors like R307, R306 are examples of optical fingerprint sensors and used for practical prototype makings.

B. Display Modules
Display modules are used to indicate status of user entry when he/she places his/her fingerprint on the scanner. In existing systems
of biometric attendance systems, earlier display modules like 16*2 LCD modules are used to indicate the status of record when
someone places a finger on a scanner. But later on display modules are technically improved with different protocols in reducing the
number of connection lines and data lines and making them compromised. For example a 16*2 LCD display module contains 16
lines for connections and data. Whereas an OLED module contains 6 or 4 total connection lines including power and data,
depending on the protocol we selected. The OLED module has a wide range of uses that includes bitmap display and less equipped
connections. The two protocols of the OLED module are serial peripheral interface (SPI) and Inter-integrated Circuit (I2C). To be
more convenient we used I2C protocol as it communicates between different slaves from the master and it just requires two signal
connections to exchange of information between master and slave. Apart from the two protocols of the display module, there exists
two common signal lines to exchange data and communication between slave and master. Those are Serial Data (SDA) and Serial
Clock (SCL).
1) Serial Data (SDA): Serial data transmits the data between master and slave but the I2C protocol is limited to 8 bit of data
transfer which is less than SPI protocol.
2) Serial Clock (SCL): SCLcarries the clock signal. I2C is a serial communication protocol that the data is transferred
synchronously along a single wire of serial data. Both the protocols of OLED are parallel in their operation that is both the
serial data and serial clock acts parallel between the host and user .The clock signal is always controlled by the master/host.

C. Open Source Internet Platform Board

Earlier existing systems are done using GPS, GPRS, and manual monitoring systems. But by the improvement in open source
internet platform boards like Arduino IoT, Nodemcu-- the developed board of esp8266 which enables all kinds of operations with
this board itself. We used Nodemcu board as our open source internet platform board to develop and maintain the records in an
internal server created using XAMPP.

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II. OVERVIEW OF PROPOSED SYSTEM

A. Overview
Our proposed system deals with compromised circuitry that is with less circuitry but with greater efficiency. The components are
selected in a way that fulfill the motto of the proposed system and are tested in all kinds in our lab view. The below image illustrates
the proposed system in a simple way that everyone understands.

Fig. 3 Glimpse of proposed system

B. Block Diagram and working

In general, fingerprints scanners are made to collect user fingerprints initially and store them in the inbuilt space of fingerprint
scanners using a separate software described by various manufactures. But later on using some libraries like Adafruit libraries in
Arduino software, the process got simplified for creating a fingerprint database of users directly from a PC connecting the hardware
to it and processing the work through Arduino software. In our proposed system a local server using XAMPP is created with basic
html source codes and are programmed with esp8266 to create a user database from the internal server itself. This made our
proposed system to be more secure, because an internal server cannot be accessed from other personal computers but through this
compromised proposed system one can carry the equipment anywhere and can gain one’s presence in ease of time and smartness.

Fig. 4 Schematic of proposed system

The open source internet board can be accessed with a small change in its code every time we connect to a new wireless network.

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C. Software Design
In order to full-fill the motto of the proposed system, the hardware must be programmed to their responsibilities of work. In our
proposed system nodemcu is allotted to control and maintain the operations of all hardware parts. And XAMPP is programmed for
maintaining records of the data by users using phpmyadmin. Arduino software with some libraries like adafruit, ssd and some
internet protocol libraries like html are used for programming esp8266.

III. CONCLUSION
The existing process of taking student attendance manually using paper is highly inefficient and time consuming. The attendance
monitoring system based on the biometric authentication has a potential to streamline the whole process. An iot based biometric
attendance system with compressed circuitry can prove to be a great value to educational institutions and organizations. The cost
involved in making this system is quite less when compared to conventional biometric attendance systems. Coming to our proposed
system we established, secure database and Easy circuitry and operational methodology.

IV. FUTURE SCOPE

This would make the process of identifying an individual will be easier in any kind of environment. The proposed system further be
implemented to automatically calculate attendance percentages of students and intimate the parents through any kind of
communication. The hardware size can be reduced. A good display can be used instead of basic 128*64 oled display. One can try to
interface all the required modules with the nodemcu to reduce the size. A better interactive website can be designed. We tested our
website with a local server. The database has to be connected with the college server. Websites can be designed attractively. Even
more pages can be created to add extra features for it.Although many speak about the disadvantages of using an IoT based
attendance system, the advantages it offers by saving our time and energy cannot be ignored. The concept of IoT revolves around
connecting devices using sensors and to the internet so they can communicate with other similar objects without human
intervention.

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