Development of Student Attendance Application for Mobile Devices with RFID and Bluetooth Technologies

To follow the class attendance of the students is a challenging and time consuming process in terms of lecturer. Followup of class attendance at universities is done by circulating the attendance sheet in class. The number and signature of each student is got. However, this process reduces the efficiency of the class and causes time loss. In order to control the class attendance of the students, in this study, the student participation application was developed for smart mobile devices using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and Bluetooth technology. In the developed application, a circuit was designed using RFID and bluetooth module and a program was written for the mobile device. The numbers of the students were defined on ID cards with RFID feature. The information read as contactless of the student was transmitted to the mobile device via Bluetooth and saved in the database. Thus, the attendance information of the students was got for the related class. At the end of the semester, the attendance information stored on the mobile device was transferred to the server computer and statistical information could be obtained on a student basis