UTP Attendance System on Mobile Phone

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS is a private university in Malaysia that offer higher-level education to produce well-rounded graduate. Hence, in order to reach the objective as well as to ensure that all students get benefits from all the knowledge provided here, students are compulsory to attend at least 80 percent (80%) of the class if the students want to pass in every course offered. Nevertheless, since UTP was establish from 1997, manual attendance tracking was implemented until now and authors found that there are a lot of disadvantages of that. Therefore, the objective of study is to replace the manual system of tracking student’s attendance with fully automate student attendance system. Other than that, the other objective of project is to use the new technology as the main core in the system. The target technology for this project is Bluetooth technology and Android system. Some of the problems that have been discovered by author are students tend to cheat by sign on behalf of their absent friends and disruption of lecture session while distribution of attendance sheet from one to another. In order to solve the problem, author has come out with a proposed idea to create a fully automate system that able to track the attendance system just by using Bluetooth sensor connected to lecturer smartphone. Some scopes that need to cover by author to build the system are the interaction between student and lecturer. Other scope is system is developing for mobile apps and Bluetooth technology. Besides, Bluetooth technology also need for more enhancements to connect and send data from non-Android to Android devices. Moreover, the system must have the security and safety features that able to prevent student to commit any cheating