ABSTRACT

This project is on the design and development of portable and reliable fingerprint based student attendance monitoring system that can be used to monitor attendance of the student. It will eliminate the problems of manual method. The new system utilizes a portable fingerprint scanner as the input to acquire fingerprint images and notebook personal computer as the mobile terminal for the processing of the images and records attendance. It also include database to store students information and attendance records. Visual Basic.net was used as the programming language to develop this system. The system was tested and found working correctly. 

Keywords: fingerprint scanner, personal computer, mobile terminal, database, visual basic .net

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title                           Pages

Cover page

Title page                                                                                                                        i

Certification    ii          

Dedication    iii    

Acknowledgment    iv    

Abstract    v   

Table of Contents    vi    

List of Tables     x    

List of Figures      x     

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY       1

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM       3   

1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES       4

1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY                   4         

1.5 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY       4   

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY       5     

1.7 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS       6         

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 WHAT IS BIOMETRICS        7

2.2 HISTORY OF BIOMETRICS         9

2.3 TYPES OF BIOMETRIC DEVICES AVAILABLE       14

2.3.1 RETINA SCANNER       15

2.3.2 IRIS SCANNER       17

2.3.3 FINGERPRINT SCANNER        19

2.3.4 FACIAL BIOMETRICS        22

2.3.5 VOICE RECOGNITION        24

2.3.6 HAND PRINT PATTERNS        24

2.3.7 DNA FINGERPRINT        26

2.3.8 DEEP TISSUE ILLUMINATION        26

2.3.9 VOICE PRINT KEYSTROKE PATTERN        26

2.4 APPLICATION AREAS OF BIOMETRICS        27

2.5 RELATED STUDIES        31

2.6 SUMMARY OF REVIEW        34 

CHAPTER THREE: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

3.1 ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM       36

3.2 JUSTIFICATIONS OF THE NEW SYSTEM       37

3.3 METHODOLOGY       37

3.4 DATA COLLECTION       39

3.5 THE PROPOSED NEW SYSTEM       39

3.6 DATA STRUCTURE       44

CHAPTER FOUR: SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION, TESTING AND INTEGRATION

4.1 CHOICE OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE       46

4.2 THE SYSTEM MAIN MENU IMPLEMENTATION       47

4.2.1 MAIN MENU       47

4.2.2 ADMIN LOGIN PAGE      48

4.2.3 LECTURER ACTIVATOR SETUP PAGE      49

4.3 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUB-SYSTEM      50

4.4 QUERY SUB-SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION      53

4.5 SYSTEM TESTING AND INTEGRATION      54

4.6 TEST PLAN      54

4.7 TEST DATA      54

CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1 SUMMARY      55

5.2 RECOMMENDATION      56

5.3 CONCLUSION      57

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