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Slide 1: Java Based RFID Attendance Management System A graduation project for the future.. Supervised by Prof.Dr.Hesham Arafat Ali
Slide 2: Agenda Introduction ● A problem to solve and a solution. ● System purpose ● System features. ● Where? ● Used tools ●Phases ● Planning, gathering information phase ● Design, Application and Database Design ● Implementation ● Testing ●Future applicable extensions ●A Thank you! Word and Questions ●
Slide 3: Introduction Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohammed
Slide 4: Introduction: System Purpose The purpose of this project is to develop an automated class attendance checking system for each and every lecture room in the university. ●
Slide 5: Introduction: Where?
Slide 6: Introduction: Key Technology The primary technology to be used is Radio Frequency Identification technology or RFID ●A system of identification wherein an electronic device that uses radio frequency or magnetic field variations to communicate is attached to an item. ●Why RFID? 1. Alignment is not necessary. 2. High inventory speeds. 3. Variety of form factors. 4. Item-level tracking. 5. Rewritability (This depends on the type of the Tag). ●
Slide 8: Introduction: Used Tools RFID, The Key Technology ●Linux, The Base Operating System ●JAVA, Application logic and the middle-ware ●MySQL, The Back-end Database ●GWT, Google Web Toolkit ●
Slide 9: Planning & Analysis Eman Mahmoud Abdel Fattah
Slide 10: Planning ● ● We believe that the best way to get a good working application is to give enough time for planning and designing. In our planning phase,we passed through the following..
Slide 11: Know the scale and working environment ● large number of students ,class rooms and teaching stuff. Limited resources. Searching for suitable RFID-Reader to work efficiently with minimum cost. System has to be scalable ● ●
Slide 12: Analysis: Technical - H/W requirements: RFID-Readers – Tags – Server machine - S/W requirements: – Linux Operating System – Database – Apache web server - Who uses the system: – – – – Students Teachers Professors
Slide 13: System Analysis The system should be divided into 3 modules - The RFID module for using the RFID-Reader. - The Database module for recording the attendance. - The View module to view recorded attendance.
Slide 14: Analysis: Economic ● Initial costs ● RFID-Reader: 500 EGP for each Classroom RFID-Tag for each student Electricity cost Maintenance cost ● ● Running costs ● ●
Slide 15: Application & Database Design Eman Sa'ad El-Dien El-Zahy
Slide 16: Design As in the planning phase we have 3 modules - The RFID module - The Database module - The View module
Slide 17: RFID Designing Java classes which function is: ● When students pass through the RFID-Reader with their ID-cards,The RFIDReader reads the ID of each student passes and sends it to the server for processing . ● The server takes the ID of the student, process it and record the attendance in the database.
Slide 18: Database ● Included two phases: 1- Designing the Database creating tables that mirrors the structure of the environment and the relations between these tables. – Normalizing tables. 2- Designing Database Java classes: – – – Classes that records the attendance data in the database. Classes that retrieves the attendance data to view it using the systems' GUI.
Slide 19: View ● Designing login form to check authentication. Designing needed forms for possible users of the system depending on the permissions given to each type of users (professor,TA,student). ●
Slide 20: The Environment Moustafa Mahmoud Al-Sherbiny
Slide 21: The Environment: Linux We use Linux as the base OS for our server In spite of that , Our Software is tested under Microsoft Windows. And can be deployed on any other platform that supports Java ● ●
Slide 22: The Environment: Why Linux? • Mainly , It is free – FREE of charge. – FREE source – Rapid development – More Secure. • Security –User Privileges –No Executables –No Registry • Stability. • Multi-User , Networked OS
Slide 23: The Environment: Java • Java is an Open Source Object Oriented Programming Language. • Platform independent • Secure • Simple • Multi-Threaded • Distributed
Slide 24: The Environment: MySQL • Relational (RDBMS) database management system • Providing multiuser access to a number of databases • Works on many different system platforms
Slide 25: The Environment: GWT Google Web ToolKit • A JAVA to JavaScript cross-compiler •It takes Java code and compiles it into JavaScript to be run in a browser with AJAX style • GWT-RPC : A technology used to remotely invoke code component from remote server
Slide 26: Implementation Amal Abdel Naby Al-Shihaby
Slide 27: Implementation: Reader API ● We create a class that will listen to the reader and if the reader read a tag it will capture this ID and the time of Attendance
Slide 28: View: Login Interface The client will send this information to the server using RPC to check if this user is authenticated. ●
Slide 29: View: Student Interface ● For student he can view only his attendance.
Slide 30: View: Professor Interface ● For professors ,each one can view attendance in his subjects.
Slide 31: View: Teacher Interface ● ● ● Switch on/off interface View student attendance View section attendance
Slide 32: Teacher: Reader Interface ● The teacher can switch on/off the reader from the interface
Slide 33: Model ● We create number of classes that will execute the query on the database and return the required data.
Slide 34: Controller ● Google Web Toolkit provides us with some of tools like RPC package. We used this package to connect the view with the model ●
Slide 35: Future Extensions Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohammed
Slide 36: Future Extensions ● Email integration and notification SMS integration and cooperation Cooperation with university's current system, proxy and email accounts Bullet-in boards, forums and presentations views. Classes Assignments Sections Cancellation ● ● ● ● ●
Slide 37: Question?
Slide 38: Thanks!