Bluetooth beacon based Attendance System with Android Application

Abstract

Beacons are the devices which are connected with any android devices using Bluetooth. This can be used to mark presence of a user within premises. In most schools and universities, the teacher manually records the attendance of the students present in the class. There are various ways to automate the process of taking attendance such as fingerprint recognition, identity card scanner and so on, which consumes equally the same time as manual attendance. In this paper, we are aiming at implementing a Bluetooth low energy based attendance management system. When the student reaches into within the range of beacon, the android app will detect the previously paired beacon devices and it establishes connection. The application is used to collect the data from the Bluetooth and store it accordingly. This provides a way for the teacher to instantly record the attendance of all the students. To ensure the credibility of the system we are using people counting system through video surveillance.