A Proposal for an Economic Attendance Management System

This paper proposes an attendance management system (AMS) after reviewing existing AMSs. The proposed AMS uses smartphones carried by students and the wireless access points that are installed to allow Wi-Fi compliant devices such as smartphones to access to the local area network. There is almost no university campus where the local area network is not available. Since the proposed AMS does not use any other devices except the smartphones and access points, it is easy and economical to be installed. The proposed system recognizes all students in the class as attendees as long as every student carries a smartphone that is registered to the AMS. The proposed system recognizes all students who are not in the classroom as absentees. During the preparation stage, each access point is assigned a unique dynamic Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation range.