Design and Build Attendance System Using Beacon technology For Office or School

Abstract

IBeacon is an extension to the location service offered by Apple in its devices. It allows iPhone applications to become location-aware. iBeacon is based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and provides a proximity location service for an indoor environment. Nowadays, mobile phones are equipped with advance technologies. One of these technologies is BLE. BLE consumes less energy from the device, hence, making it a good candidate to use for indoor positioning system. Mobile phones can be used to enhance student’s services. One of these services is taking the attendance. Taking attendance requires a location factor of the student. Hence, Beacon can be used for this purpose. The project is going to implement Beacon-bases services for students. This includes implementing two applications. A backend server, which has the student information in its database, and it offers the services. An iPhone/Android application which uses Beacon signals to send data into the server. This report outlines the current progress in the project.