DTR System Using Proximity Card
DTR System Using Proximity Card
DTR System Using Proximity Card
PCU
By
In Partial Fulfilment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
April 2016
Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
1.1
Introduction
Academic institutions are responsible for what their students are learning.
These institutions are considered as one of the most important source of education.
It has been said that education is the transmission of knowledge from one generation
to another by means of direct instruction (Giddens, 2004). But what if those people,
whose job is to give instructions, are not present? Then those institutions are not
able to do their responsibilities.
This is a common problem not only to companies, but also to schools and
universities. Many of them are not able to properly record and monitor the
attendances of their staffs and faculties, which affects both the school and their
students. Most of them use the manual method of recording and monitoring DTR,
which is ineffective in monitoring the records of faculties and staffs, especially when
handling large volumes of data. Without proper instructions from the professors, the
learning of the students may decline, thus affecting the universities reputation.
In order to address this problem, it is important for a university to improve their
method in taking the attendances of their staffs and faculties. Using a computerbased DTR system may greatly improve the process of recording the staffs and
faculties DTR in terms of speed and efficiency of both recording and monitoring,
combined with the contactless smart card technology to make the system tamperproof and accurate.
By using the proposed system, the faculties and staffs will only tap their IDs
on the card reader to take their time-in and time-out and the system will
automatically record the data to the database and generate a report for the
managers. With this process, the managers will be able to monitor their staffs easily.
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