A Proposed Mobile-Based and Secured Attendance Recording System Using Quick Response Codes

Abstract

In the current technological era, cellphones are an integral part of our daily lives. These days, most issues can be quickly and simply resolved with smartphones. With a variety of social media apps, business apps, problem-solving apps, educational and marketing apps, and more, it has simplified and eased everyone's life. Conversely, Quick Response (QR) codes have a straightforward appearance but can hold a large amount of data, which can be used in the information security process. However much information they may contain, the user should be able to rapidly and securely access information by scanning the QR code. In most human controlled businesses, taking information about attendance is a time-consuming, repetitive, and crucial procedure. Every day, the same procedure is used to take attendance. However, the attendance records at many universities in Sudan are not automated. It requires a lot of time to accomplish it. This research tries to automate the process of attendance recording using mobile devices and the QR technique. The resulted system will be an automated mobile-based attendance system, which can contribute to securing data to save the rights of human labor and increasing the efficiency of the attendance process. This will directly help lecturers save time and spend more time on academic activities with their students instead of wasting their time managing attendance records.