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Table of Content
Executive Summery ……………………………..…….
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Introduction……………………………………………………………......
....... 3

Statement of The Problem……………...……………….

………………....... 3

Background of the study …………………………….………..

…………. 4

Objectives……………..
………………………………………………………….… 4

Method or Activities………. ……………………………………..

…….. 5

Working principle of
RFID………………………………………………. 6
Why did we decide to make
it………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Resource…………………………………..
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What is RFID……………………………………………………….
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1. Materials
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1.1. Arduino Uno Board……………………………………………………………. 7

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 1.2. RFID MFRC522 Module ………………………………………………..… 8
1.3. SD Card Module…………………………………………………………………. 9
1.4. RTC Module…………………………………………………………………………. 10
1.5. Display with 12c lcd Module……………………………………………. 11
2. Components connection with Arduino………………………….
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2.1. RFID
MFRC522 ………………………………………………………… 12
2.2. Real Time
Clock…………………………………………………………
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2.3. SD Card module………………………………………………………………….……… 13
2.4. I2C
module……………………………………………………………………..
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3. Full circuit diagram’s

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3.1. Circuit Diagram one
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3.2. circuit diagram
two………………………………………………………………. 16

Executive summery:
This invention is generally done by using RFID system and this invention is very
useful for students and teachers as well as the school. To implement this
invention, all the necessary items can be implemented because there are
individuals who import and distribute them in our country.

Introduction:

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Statement of the Problem:
As it was tried to explain in the study above, the attendance of
students with this large number of students in an irregular
manner will cause big problems.
Looking at them:
• of student’s and teacher’s learning time.
When we see this, teachers are expected to enter the classrooms after the
parade ceremony and deliver the day's lessons, but instead of doing so,
they are busy gathering attendance in each classroom, which has a direct
impact on the teaching.
• collection of correct data is not guaranteed

When we look at this, the data is collected by the teachers who are
in a hurry to get to the day's session, so they are tired because of
neglect and boredom. This means that there is very little chance of
gathering quality and truthful information. This will cause serious
damage to the school. This is the family that achieves the high
results expected of the students; It also calls into question the
responsibility of the school to fulfill the country's mandate.
By using this device When we look at their solutions, the problems
described above are mainly the solution of our creative work. This is our
innovative RFID system. This means that the device allows parents to
monitor their children from home. It also allows teachers to control their

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students in a modern, efficient and reliable way.

Background of the study:

in 2015E.C According to the data collected In the secondary
campus of our school, there are ________ classrooms and each
classroom has _____ to _____ students.
The recruitment of each class is still called by the boring and
ineffective method, which affects the quality of education.

OBJECTIVES :
This invention is a modern student attendance monitoring system,
which is an easy-to-control innovation that informs parents about
their children's attendance at their precious school on time.
To put the innovation on the ground and turn it into action, to
solve the problems of our parents and teachers in a safe
manner, to ease the work and to join our society in the field of
modernity, to help the journey of building digital Ethiopia, which
is our country's leader, and to be a part of the story.

Method or Activities:
It uses RFID system and it is an ID card issued with the name of the
students when they register at the school.
If a student registers and takes out an RFID card, when he comes to
the school, he will enter the school by scanning the ID card with the
device placed on the door. The class name teacher can easily take
the daily student attendance data from the device data base without

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having to go around each class. Also, this device is preferred and
useful because it can inform parents about the time their children
entered and left school from their location via Short message
service (SMS).

Working principle of RFID

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Why did we decide to make it
Attendance in University is generally paper based which may sometimes cause errors.
Taking attendance manually consumes more time. So, In this project we have
designed RFID Based Attendance System using Arduino and RFID MFRC522
Module. In this system, each student is issued an RFID card as their id card and their
attendance is marked when they touch their card to RFID reader.

Resource:
what is RFID?
RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. Here digital data stored in
RFID tags are captured by a reader via radio waves.

1. MATERIALS

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 1.1. Arduino Uno Board

This is a microcontroller board based on the Microchip ATmega328P. This was

used as the brain of the circuit.

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1.2. RFID MFRC522 Module

This is the transmission module used for RFID communication.

This RFID reader communicates at 13.56 MHz's Uses SPI
communication.

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 1.3. SD card module

Used to transfer data to and from SD card. Used to fulfil the data
logging part. Uses SPI communication to transfer data between the
microcontroller and SD card.

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 1.4. RTC module

RTC stands for Real Time Clock. This is power by a battery. Therefore,
even when the whole device is switched off we can still get the accurate
time from the RTC.

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 1.5. display (20 x 4) with i2c lcd module

Display information based on the RFID tag read. Display the number of
students in the library at a given moment.

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2. Components connection with Arduino

2.1. RFID MFRC522

PIN WIRING TO ARDUINO UNO

SDA Digital 10

SCK Digital 13

MOSI Digital 11

MISO Digital 12

IRQ unconnected

GND GND

RST Digital 9

3.3V 3.3V

Caution: You must power this device to 3.3V!

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 2.2. Real Time Clock (RTC) Module (DS1307 and
DS3231)

PIN WIRING TO ARDUINO UNO

SCL A5

SDA A4

VCC 5V

GND GND

If you’re using other Arduino board rather than the uno, checkout what are their SCL and SDA
pins.

PIN NANO MEGA LEONARDO

SDA A4 20 20

SCL A5 21 21

2.3. SD Card module

SD CARD MODULE WIRING TO ARDUINO UNO

VCC 3.3V or 5V (check module’s datasheet)

CS 4

MOSI 11

CLK 13

MISO 12

GND GND

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 2.4. I2C module

I2C CHARACTER LCD ARDUINO

GND GND

VCC 5V

SDA A4

SDL A5

3. Full circuit diagram’s

3.1. circuit diagram one

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 3.2. circuit diagram two Schematic diagram

In addition

In this project we use Arduino software code language is C/C++

The source code is available in github.com.

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Budget :
In general, to implement this project, excluding allowances and excess
items, 6,050.00 ETB is required.

Components Unit Price

Arduino UNO ×1 2000.00 birr
RTC module ×1 400.00 birr
Alphanumeric LCD ×1 700.00 birr

Bread bored (generic) ×1 300.00 birr

Jumper wires (generic) ×5 350.00 birr

GMS (SMS) module ×1 1000.00 birr

SD card module ×1 400.00 birr

RFID MFRC522 module ×1 550.00 birr

I2c module ×1 350.00 birr

Total = 6050.00
birr

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Measurement

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