ABSTRACT
In today’s world where we have automation in all the areas, there is one field where technology is not entered yet. It is the attendance system for college students. It is a very time consuming system and so far there is no initiative taken to introduce technology in this area. We have identified the complexities and brought latest technology for teachers to take the attendance of the student.

INTRODUCTION
Fingerprint identification is the method by which impressions are made of the minute ridge formations and patterns found on the fingertips. No two persons have exactly the same arrangement of patterns, and the patterns of any one individual remain unchanged throughout life. Furthermore, while other personal characteristics may change, fingerprints do not.

Drawbacks of Existing System
Proxy Attendance is the major disadvantage of existing system. A lot of work increases for the Teachers, apart from the Teaching curriculum. The data collected by the existing system is inaccurate.

Proposed System
In our system the Teacher will bring a Handheld Device to the class and will follow the following steps…

• Teacher will start the attendance procedure by enrolling his own thumb in the system,
• He will give this device to the students and start teaching,
• Every student will show their finger print on the scanner of the device and all those who are present will get the attendance for that lecture,
• Teacher will again place the same finger to close the attendance procedure,
• After completing the lecture the teacher will take this device to the Server PC to upload the students’ attendances to the college database either by manually or automatically using WSN or IOT.
• The software at PC side will automatically mark the attendance of the respective Finger Print ID.
• At the end of semester the software can generate various types of reports for taking printouts.