Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2019, pp. 72 -89 ISSN 2006-1781 T. C. Adeniran, Y. Sanni, N. Faruk and L. A. Olawoyin (2019), Design and Implementation of an Automated Attendance Monitoring System for a Nigerian University using RFID © 2019 Afr. J. Comp. & ICT – All Rights Reserved https://afrjcict.net Design and Implementation of an Automated Attendance Monitoring System for a Nigerian University using RFID T. C. Adeniran 1 *, Y. Sanni 2 , N. Faruk 3 and L. A. Olawoyin 4 Department of Telecommunication Science, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria Email: 1 adeniran.tc@unilorin.edu.ng, 2 youssouph4gunners@gmail.com, 3 faruk.n@unilorin.edu.ng, 4 lolawoyin@gmail.com * Corresponding author ABSTRACT The attendance taking- process of any institution including universities and other tertiary institutions is an essential part of justifying the excellence of a particular student. Conventional attendance management system involving the use of attendance sheet and signing has proved to have some associated problems such as time wasting, fake attendance and misplacement of attendance sheet, thus making the system inefficient and ineffective. The application was developed using Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Access as the database. This research work successfully designed and implemented an RFID-based Attendance Monitoring System (AMS) that automatically takes attendance and calculates the percentages via scanning the Unique Identifier (UID) of a tag which represents each student. The designed system proved to be effective such that it processes information gathered from the tags within an average of 219ms read time and a narrow error margin of 0 during the subjected trials. Keywords: Attendance, Attendance Monitoring System (AMS), Database, Identification, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). _________________________________________________ African Journal of Computing & ICT Reference Format: T. C. Adeniran, Y. Sanni, N. Faruk and L. A. Olawoyin (2019), Design and Implementation of an Automated Attendance Monitoring System for a Nigerian University using RFID, Afr. J. Comp. & ICT, Vol.12, No. 2, pp. 72 - 89. © Afr. J. Comp. & ICT, June 2019; ISSN 2006-1781 I. INTRODUCTION Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies are emerging technologies that could bring significant impact to many organisations, institutions and countries at large. The technology belongs to the group called Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) [1].RFID systems, typically, consists of a reader and multiple tags. It works based on an identification request sent from a reader to the tags. However, a collision may occur when multiple tags reply simultaneously, leading to unsuccessful identifications of all the participating tags. For this reason,[2]proposed an adaptive binary tree and slotted ALOHA techniques to combat this problem. 72