Design and Implementation of RFID Card Based Authentication Software in Universitas Advent Indonesia’s Dining Room

Abstract

Introduction: Universitas Advent Indonesia is a boarding school that provides meal services to the students who live in the dormitory. However, not all of the students live in the dormitory, the students can opt to stay outside of the dormitory and stay in the campus’ surroundings. Thus, it is necessary to have a system that can differentiate which student is eligible to have meals in the campus’ dining room. Therefore, in this research we propose to use cards embedded with an RFID chip that can be authenticated using a card reader that connects to the university’s online system to determine and record the students that have meals in the dining room. In this research we use prototyping paradigm, that defines a set of general objectives for the proposed software and adding the detailed requirements or functions while the software is being deployed.: The implemented system proved can identify the students that are permitted to have meals at the campus dining room using RFID cards. When a student taps his/her card to the reader, the application reads the unique number and compared it with the record in the database and display the student’s name, photo and their status. The software also records the students who have tapped their card and prevent the student to take more than one plate in a meal time. The stored record in the database is integrated to the existing online system in the university and can be accessed by authorized parties in campus. The software can be further implemented to different departments in the university such as: library, dormitory, entrance gate; to provide an integrated single identity card that can be used to authenticate students in the campus.