International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology, 2020 Vol. 5, Issue 1, ISSN No. 2455-2143, Pages 517-521 Published Online May 2020 in IJEAST (http://www.ijeast.com) 517 LOCATION BASED ATTENDANCE MONITORING SYSTEM Aayushi Singh, Tanya Goel, Deepali Srivastava, Astha Singh Computer Science Engineering, B. tech IMSEC, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Ms. Shivani Agarwal Assistant Professor, Computer Science Engineering, B. tech IMSEC, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Abstract— Attendance systems were developed a long time ago. Traditional methods like maintaining registers and having a web portal for attendance are used at most of the places even now. This paper will discuss the fingerprint and geo-fence technique and its implementation for Mobile Attendance android-based application. Managing student attendance during lecture periods has be- come a difficult challenge. The process of computing attendance manually is a difficult job which has to be done on a daily basis and at various levels. An efficient attendance management system using biometrics is designed in order to solve this issue. This process eliminates the need for stationary materials and personnel for keeping records. The results obtained from this system are more accurate and will save a lot of time. Attendance is marked after student identification and uses geofencing to restrict area. Teachers will use their own smartphones for marking the attendance and their attendance will also be marked then and there only. Keywords— Attendance, Geofencing, Biometric I. INTRODUCTION In many institutions as described in work by (Shoewu O. and Idowu O.A. et al. 2012) , and academic organizations, attendance criteria are being used for various purposes. These purposes include keeping of records, assessment of students, and for consistent attendance promotion. Attendance keeping is a time-consuming process and it also decides the number of students eligible to sit for the exams. Thus, there is a need for an efficient system that can solve this problem. An automatic attendance management system using bio- metrics would provide the needed solution. An attendance management system is a software developed for daily students and teacher’s attendance in schools and institutions. This system maintains a record of the attendance of students as well as teachers. Things get cumbersome when we use cameras (face detection schemes) for attendance or when we use RFID cards as described in work by (Shoewu O. and Idowu O.A. et al. 2012) because the expense of these systems at large levels is not affordable. The software and hardware are compatible. Web based portals as well as Android apps have been developed to make things easy. Teachers will take attendance of the students using the installed app on their smartphones. The prints will be stored in the database that will do the matching part for further process. System will help in generating reports at software level, discusses the operations and how the system was tested with reference to system design and functional objectives; concludes the observations made; and makes recommendations for future improvement. II. RELATED WORK Managing attendance has always been a big issue and it has involved various methods and techniques to make justice to it. Various types of applications use GPS for tracking. GPS allows an object to be tracked by detecting the GPS unit that is installed in a device as described in work by (Makhtar M, Rosly R, Fadzli S. A.,Shamsuddin S. N. W. and Jamal A. A. et al. 2016) . When a person carries the device, the satellite can detect the GPS location. Nowadays, most smartphones already embed a GPS unit. In the article “The effects of information technology on human resource management and utilization”, Ren emphasized that the flourishing of information technology leads to a quantitative and qualitative revolution within an organization, an industry and inter-industries. Biometrics is a measurable biological feature or personal trait that can be verified through automated means to confirm a person’s identity. Thus, biometric recognition is a technology to prove a person’s identity through personal traits. A portion of the body must be provided as the basis of comparison and to keep a biological record.