INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 3, ISSUE 8, AUGUST 2014 ISSN 2277-8616 238 IJSTR©2014 www.ijstr.org Indigenous Development Of Automated Wireless Fingerprint Attendance System Sagar Wale, S.A. Patil Abstract: Apart from traditional wired attendance systems or paper based attendance system a automated wireless fingerprint attendance system based on ZigBee technology is proposed. The system includes independent fingerprint acquisition module and attendance management module in computer. System realizes various functions such as information acquisition of fingerprint, processing, wireless transmission, fingerprint matching, and attendance management. Automatically considering topology of ZigBee network, the system uses wireless local area network. System comprises various wireless fingerprint attendance functions, which could be used for public/private institutes or schools. Index Terms: ARM7 LPC2138, Fingerprint, Keyboard, Microcontroller, Time attendance, Visual basic 6 software , Zigbee network, ———————————————————— 1 Introduction Time attendance policy is a very important part of enterprises and public institutions, industry, etc. Card clocking and other traditional clocking ways once enhance working efficiency, leads to immeasurable economic loss. Fingerprint time attendance is developed according to fingerprint‘s uniqueness and invariance, one person, one fingerprint. So avoid fake attendance, and attendance management people do not feel awkward, so company, friend and employee are all happy finally. The Fingerprint time attendance consist of fingerprint capture and transfer, fingerprint image processing and wireless transfer of data in a server-client system. Biometrics fingerprint recognition is universally applied. The student attendance system is very relevant in an institute like ours since it aims at eliminating all the hassles of roll calling and malpractice and promises a full-proof as well as reliable technique of keeping records of student‘s attendance. Once student attendance is scan by finger print scanner, it is recognized. ZigBee network, the system uses wireless local area network for transferring finger image via ARM7 LPC2138 [1], [2], [3] microcontroller and LCD. LCD is used for viewing fingerprint success or fail. All students make use of Fingerprint time attendance. Finally daily and monthly student attendance is created by using Microsoft excel sheet. Defaulter student parent‘s gets SMS from college uses ZigBee network. Keyword Fingerprint time attendance, ZigBee network, ascii value of that key is provided to the microcontroller via software. 2 Systems Implementation System is fully automatic gives various outputs like database is created, Daily attendance monthly attendance created and SMS is sent to parent mobile no. 2.1 Block Diagram Description Keypad Keypad is basically used to provide the input to the microcontroller. The keypad consists of micro switches which are connected to the microcontroller pins in a matrix format. Each key is assigned with the special character or symbol or digit. When user presses the key the respective assigned Figure 2.1 Block diagram of fingerprint wireless monitoring system Liquid Crystal Display LCD is used in a project to visualize the output of the application. We have used 16x2 LCD which indicates 16 columns and 2 rows [4], [5]. So, we can write 16 characters in each line. So, total 32 characters we can display on 16x2 LCD. LCD can also used in a project to check the output of different modules interfaced with the microcontroller. Thus LCD plays a vital role in a project to see the output ARM7 LPC2138 MICRO CONTROLLE R Zigbee Transmission Finger print Controller. Power Supply Memory Matrix Keyboard LCD Device Finger Print Module _______________________  Mr Sagar Wale is currently working as a HOD in E&TC dept. of DMPR’s Institute, Karad, Maharashtra, India, PH-9109890174723, E-mail: sagarwale@gmail.com  Prof. (Dr.) S.A. Patil is currently working as a Professor in E&TC dept. of DKTE’S, Textile & Engineering Institute, Icalkarngi, Maharashtra, India PH-9109822524667 E-mail: shrinivasapatil@gmail.com