Prototyping Of Class-attendance System Using 8051 Microcontroller

Currently, most of educational institutions in Indonesia use conventional mechanism for recording student’s attendance in the class. The conventional system is based on signature filled in the paper-based attendance form. It suffers from several problems such as time consuming, error prone and vulnerable to human error. To overcome those problems, in this paper, a prototype of online class-attendance system is developed. The proposed system is designed based on Mifare 1K smart card as student ID card and   RFID Reader as the card reader as well as the gateway device. In order to operate the system, two software applications are introduced. One for card management tool called GM Card Manager and the other one for card reader tool called GM Card Attendance System. Experiments show that the proposed attendance system works well in term of creating, editing and formatting Mifare 1K student ID card and also recording the attendance data conveniently. The proposed attendance system perform faster data processing time, record more detail and accurate data, less error and less man power. This means that the proposed system is better than conventional system.