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IoT Based Smart Attendance System Using RFID and Google Sheet
Prof. (Dr) Ajay Talele1, Rushikesh Joshi2, Pratiksha Mandage3, Gayatri Waghmare4, Jenifer
Khanvilkar5, Rahul Gaikwad6, Mayur Devle7
1Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India
2,3,4,5,6,7Student,Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, pune, India
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Abstract - The traditional manual attendance system is very the engineers who are working towards developing their
time-consuming, It is insecure and this system can lead to innovative products for real-time applications focus their
human errors. This system is ineffective as our valuable time work on RFID. The conventional methods can also create
and work get wasted in organizing attendance on pen and interrup- tions as a result of passing a sheet of papers
paper. Hence to overcome this problem we have used a around during academic lectures, conferences presentations,
relational database system to store the real-time data of the or workshops. It disturbs both students’ and the teachers’
students. For this project, we used RFID tags and readers to attentiveness and concentration. This in turn reduces the
record the attendance of the students. To manipulate and effectiveness of such sessions.[3]
represent the data based on the unique RFID tags, which get
fast and easily scanned on the RFID reader [1].RFID 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
technology is an automatic wireless identification system. This
particular system works with active and passive RFID cards This paper introduces a new approach to utilizing RFID
and a reader. In this work, we have tried to erase the problem (Radio Frequency Identification) to track student attendance
of manually taking attendance with the use of RFID that is based on the Internet of Things (IoT). Educational
technology. This system is used to help the authority manage institutions are concerned about student absences. The
the attendance of students in a more organized, efficient, and general academic achievement of a pupil may suffer from
time-saving manner. This particular system has been truancy. It takes a lot of time and is ineffective to take
implemented in a prototype system that uses RFID tags and a attendance the old-fashioned way, by calling names or
reader to calculate attendance which proves its effectiveness having people sign their names on paper. One of the answers
over the normal attendance approach. The design of the to the issue is an RFID-based attendance system that uses an
system is simple, not expensive, and portable to use which IoT system. The two most well-liked technological research
makes it good for candidates and also for commercial and trends—IoT and RFID—are included in the suggested study
academic purposes. [2] [4]. If we look at the state of our educational system right
now, we can see that although there are many technologies
Key Words: Attendence, RFID, Google Sheet, Node- available, we are still using the conventional system. When it
MCU,IoT. comes to the university and school attendance systems,
professors handled that work manually. The database was
1. INTRODUCTION manually updated by lecturers using the attendance data.
When it comes to technology, there are several solutions
This paper focuses on the implementation of a smart atten- available that can be used to lighten the load of lectures. One
dance management system using Radio Frequency illustration of such is the use of RFID. If RFID and IoT
Identifica- tion (RFID ). In recent times technologies have (Internet of Things) are used together, they can be done
min- imized the time-consuming process which improves the automatically without the need for lectures. For improved
fast response with high reliability. Hence the idea of RFID speed, we intend to use the Cloud as storage in this case. We
emerged to compensate for the requirement in terms of can access it at any time and from any location via IoT and
automation in real-time applications. The conventional the cloud, giving us greater proficiency and flexibility
methods are old enough and are still used in taking student [5].Students are required to be present. The lecturer or
attendance in many institutions and schools. This teacher cannot evaluate a student’s participation without the
particular type of attendance system has many loopholes like attendance procedure. However, the current procedure still
a student can give fake attendance to friends. If the list is involves physically taking attendance on paper. The use of
missed they have to take re- attendance, which is a very excessive paper is the first issue, and it is challenging for the
inefficient method. Right now most of the researchers administration to summarize student attendance data that is
basically concentrating on RFID systems. The main the second issue. This is due to the administration having to
advantage and utility feasibility of RFID is access control. review a large number of attendance records. Therefore, a
This could be working in miscellaneous environments. All system for tracking students’ attendance that can gather data

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quickly, effectively, and precisely is required. By doing data spreadsheet code has generated the deployment link, we
collecting, system analysis, system design, and system have to copy that link and paste it into the code and with the
implementation, this student attendance system is carried help, nodeMCU will send the data on the spreadsheet.
out. The programming languages PHP and Java Android were
used to construct this system. Ibeacon is also used by the B. RFID Tags and Cards
system to identify classrooms. The goal of this project is to
create student attendance system applications and class
schedule alerts based on BEACON. It is anticipated that by
doing this, the attendance process would be more effective
and simpler for lecturers and the central administration to
monitor[6].This paper mainly tries to describe the
implementation of RFID based smart attendance monitoring
system. This RFID system uses RFID cards (tags) to identify
student IDs. This particular system monitors attendance Fig. 2. RFID Tags and Cards
using both hardware and software using the Internet of
things (IoT). The hardware components include an RC155 The RFID tags are differentiated as passive and active tags. If
RFID reader and RFID tags. The software components the device doesn’t have its power supply it is called a passive
include GUI which is mainly used for viewing the students’ RFID tag. Thus, The passive tags have to be in very close
attendance and data which is hosted on a server[7]. range of an RFID reader and make use of the radio waves
which are broadcasted by the reader to power the response
3. PROPOSED WORK alternatively if the device has its battery power to perform
entire operations which are called active RFID tags.
Existing systems for attendance are very time-wasting, Not
efficient, and ineffective because the lecturers have to take C. RFID Reader
attendance using traditional and manual pen paper work
which is also not a secure attendance option. In this project,
we have developed a model which is a secure option for
attendance. In this project, we have used RFID tags and
readers for taking attendance of students Existing systems
for attendance are very time-wasting, Not efficient, and
ineffective because the lecturers have to take attendance
using traditional and manual pen paper work which is also
not secure attendance option. In this project, we have
developed a project which is a secure option for attendance. Fig. 3. RFID Reader
In this project, we have used RFID tags and readers for
taking attendance of students An RFID reader consists of an antenna and a Radio fre-
quency module which basically generates a high-frequency
COMPONENT USED electromagnetic field. As we all know an RFID tag is a passive
device which means that it doesn’t have a power supply or a
A. ESP8266 NodeMCU
battery. An RFID reader has a microchip that is used to store
and process the information. And also it has an antenna that
is used to receive to transmit a signal. To read the
information on the RFID tag it needs to be placed in very
close range of the reader. An RFID reader basically generates
an electromagnetic field that causes electrons to move
through the tag in the antenna and it powers up the chip.

Fig. 1. ESP8266 NodeMCU

In this project, we have used NodeMcu which is an open-

source platform. NodeMcu is based on ESP8266 which can
be used to connect objects and transfer data using Wifi. In
this project, the NodeMCU is used to send the attendance on
the spreadsheet via the wifi module. Whatever the google

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D. Buzzer upload the code take a new fresh card, and scan. After that in
the third code, we have pasted a link to the google
spreadsheet which is deployed/generated when we run the
google spreadsheet code. So after registering the card we
have to just simply upload the third code when the code is
successfully uploaded we have to take our ”Registered Card”
close to the RFID-RC522 module once the card has scanned
the buzzer will immediately beep for a few seconds and the
serial monitor will give us the link and the HTTPS code. If the
HTTPS code is 302 that means our data is successfully read
on the spreadsheet.

Fig. 4. Buzzer

This buzzer also has an important role in this module.

Whenever the user will scan his/her card then this buzzer
beeps for a few seconds so that the one who scanned the
card will know that his card is scanned properly. Without a
buzzer, one can only assume the card has been detected but
he/she will not be sure so the buzzer is important here.

OVERALL COSTING

Fig. 5. Overall Costing of the components Fig 6 . Flow Chart

HOW ATTENDANCE IS RECORDED (CODE) METHODOLOGY

This system consists of 3 codes. 1) First one is the spread- The following fig shows the block diagram for our project
sheet code which is written on the back end of the Smart attendance system using RFID. Which mainly consists
spreadsheet 2)Second one is the code in which we will of Node-Mcu (ESP-8266), RFID Cards RFID readers, A
register the card by loading his/her information. That means breadboard,16 x 2 LCD display. Here Node-Mcu acts as a
that the card will be permanently assigned to the Cen- tral processing unit (CPU) for controlling all the
student/employee. 3) The third code is the code through input/output components. For this project, we have used a
which we will scan our id card and then the attendance will 5v power supply to power up the node MCU and other
be marked on the spreadsheet via NodeMCU. In the second components.RFID reader module is interfaced with Node-
code, we will write the information which we want to save in Mcu to read the data from RFID cards/tags.16 x 2 LCD
the new fresh card. When the information is written in the display is used to display the real- time attendance of the
code we simply have to upload the code. When the uploading students /employee and the permanent attendance is stored
is done we have to take our new fresh card close to the RFID- on a google sheet using IoT. In this system, a student or
RC522 module once the information is loaded in the card the employee has to place /put his card on an RFID reader.
serial monitor will show that ”The Block is successfully When the RFID reader reads the data it directly transfers the
Read” and ”Data is stored in Block No 2”. With this we have data to Node-Mcu and the real-time attendance will be
registered one card, same process is repeated to create the displayed on a 16 x 2 LCD display and the permanent
remaining cards, just change the information in the code, attendance is stored on a google sheet.

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Ultimately, the system improves academic performance

which encourages time saves and accuracy in attendance

7. FUTURE SCOPE

Nothing is perfect in this world. We all are also no excep-

tion. Although, we have tried to present the system in
modern technology in small scale and smart way. In further
Fig. 7. Blog Diagram of the proposed system future, there can be more enhancement by developing a
mobile app. To send SMS for alert notifications, we can also
4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION use GSM modules according to the hardware need. Thing-
speak can be used for data analysis. To reduce the misuse of
RFID tags, biometric technology like iris sensors or
fingerprint sensors or image processing can be used for
unique identity to improve authorization.

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