Attendance Management System

Team Synergy:

• Madhur Khandelwal
• Siddharth Daftari
• Seema Rohilla
• Akshay Sonvane

Objective:

To create a an automated system that eliminates the manual process of attendance management.

System Components:

1. Raspberry Pi
2. Android App
3. Django web application server
4. MySQL Database

System Architecture Diagram:

Features implemented:

• Fault tolerant using replication of Raspberry Pi.
• Dynamic leader election.
• Notification via playback of a short musical note for each attendance marked.
• Energy effecient mode; activates bluetooth scan only during class timing, by pulling class timings from the server periodically.
• Rapberry Pi denies service to unauthorized students.(i.e. students who have not yet registered for that class)
• E-Mail system integrated within the application for professor/authorised person.
• Google OAuth used, no need to remember passwords or re-register.
• Connection between android and Raspberry Pi using RFCOMM protocol.
• Android app dynamically obtains the MAC address from the server before marking the attendance.
• Protection against SQL injection on server side.
• Followed MTV (Model Template View) architecture on the server.

Raspberry Pi setup:

0. Copy the contents of the raspberryPi folder to the Raspberry Pi
1. Run the setup scripts:
2. cd to/the/copied/folder
3. sudo ./oneTimeSetup.sh
4. sudo ./bluetoothSetup.sh
5. sudo ./keyboard.sh [Optional, if you want to install keyboard]
6. Edit ./serverConf.json for your setup
7. Run: python ./server.py

License:

This project is released under the MIT License.