How things work?

On the registration day of the students,fingerprints and student details are taken and added to the database using the website.A RFID token is registered for a student and given to them.Student can do the registration via the website or mobile app.Before a particular class starts,corresponding student details and fingerprint details are loaded into the sd card and fingerprint device with the help of nodemcu & backend server for student identification purposes.when a particular student put their attendance using fingerprint device and RFID sensor student details are displayed in the LCD display.At the same time,new attendance data is sent to the backend.All timetable data is added to the database and lecture reminding is automatically done by the server.Student and teachers are able to analyze and visualize attendance data via the website or mobile app.

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Services

Attendance marking System

Identifying the students in a lecture will be done by a hardware device which is in the lecture rooms by fingerprints and rfid cards.Students can see they were identified correctly in hardware device itself by seeing his information in the lcd screen.During the lecture time attendance details will be sent to the server and attendance will be updated.

Lecture Notifications

Before a lecture of a particular course students who had registered to that course will get notifications regarding lecture,lecture time,lecture duration and lecture room

Student Registration

Student will registered to the system via the website.This process will done by an admin.Student details including fingerprint will be taken into the system.

Course Registration

Beginning of the each semester registered students can do the course registration via the website or the app

Automated Timetable

Admin will initially enter the time table details (date,time,course,lecture room,lecturer) to the system via website.After that before each lecture students will get notifications via the mobile app

Attendance Review

Students can see their attendance percentage,daily attendance details via the mobile app.Lecturers can see their students' attendance for lab sessions and lecture sessions via the website.

UI Design - Website





UI Design - App

Final Hardware Device


  1. Power On
  2. Power Off
  3. Keypad
    • Setting the course code
  4. Selection Menu
    • Selecting modes such as course registration,attendance marking for the device
  5. RFID sensing area
  6. Fingerprint Scanner
  7. LCD display
    • Displaying student details after making the attendance


Hardware Components Used

1. ATmega328P microcontroller
  • Operating Voltage: 1.8V-5.5V
  • Flash Program Memory: 32 kbytes
  • EEPROM Data Memory: 1 kbytes
  • I/O Pins: 23
  • SPI and I²C Master and Slave Support
  • USART Support
  • External Oscillator: up to 20MHz

2. ESP8266 microcontroller
  • Operating Voltage: 3.3V
  • Flash Memory: 4 MB
  • EEPROM Data Memory: 1 kbytes
  • Digital I/O Pins : 16
  • SPI and I²C Support
  • USART Support
  • PCB Antenna
  • Integrated TCP/IP Protocol Stack
  • External Oscillator: up to 80 MHz

3. R307 Fingerprint Module
  • Interfacing
    • UART -> for microcontrollers/ARM processors
    • USB 2.0 ->for computers
    • Software serial -> to use other digital pins
  • Reliability
    • Flash memory for saving fingerprint templates -> Avoids data loss in power failures
  • Power Usage
    • Operating on 3.3v or 5v
    • Sensing circuitry consumes 5µA(very low)

4. RC522 RFID Module
  • Operating voltage: 2.5V to 3.3V
  • Communication : SPI, I2C protocol, UART
  • Maximum Data Rate: 10Mbps
  • Maximum Read Range: 5cm
  • Current Consumption: 13-26mA

5. Keypad & Port Expander(PCF8574P)
  • 4x4 keypad -> 8 pins(wastage of pins)
  • Port expander
    • Pin usage reduces to 2 pins
    • Uses I2C protocol

6. 16x2 LCD Dispaly & Port Expander(PCF8574P)
  • LCD module - > 11 pins(wastage of pins)
  • Port expander
    • Spi -> i2c Conversion
    • Pin usage reduces to 2 pins/li>

7. Rechargeable battery(Li-Po)
  • Output voltage - > 12v
  • Capacity - > 2500mAh

Circuit Diagrams



PCB design



Protocols

Software Testing

Integration Testing

    Integration testing is a level of software testing where individual units / components are combined and tested as a group. The purpose of this level of testing is to expose faults in the interaction between integrated units. Test drivers and test stubs are used to assist in Integration Testing.

Spring Boot Application Architecture

    Spring Boot Application has a 3 Tier Architecture with Controller, Service and Persistence Layer. When we talk about integration testing for a spring boot application, it is all about running an application in ApplicationContext and run tests. Spring Framework does have a dedicated test module for integration testing. It is known as spring-test. If we are using spring-boot, then we need to use spring-boot-starter-test which will internally use spring-test and other dependent libraries.

Example :- Adding a Lecture room

Results

Unit Testing - API

    UNIT TESTING, also known as COMPONENT TESTING, is a level of software testing where individual units / components of a software are tested. The purpose is to validate that each unit of the software performs as designed.

Example :- Lecture Attendance Percentage Update

Results

UI Testing - Mobile App

In     UI TESTING, test runs on a device or an emulator. In the background, your app will be installed and then a testing app will also be installed which will control your app, lunching it and running UI tests as needed

Example :- User Login

First Student will enter the username . Then he/she will close the keyboard.Next, student will enter the password. After that, he/she will close the keyboard again. Finally, student will preform click button.

Programme


Result


After Running the Test, Mobile app's Login UI will redirect to corresponding user's home page.


Performance Testing - Website

website performance, was measured using Web.dev site.Performance details are as follows.

Results

Summary Report-Software Testing

Feature / Unit Functionality Tools Results
1 Backend Validations Registration number and Email were tested for proper pattern with different inputs JUnit Given Registration number and Email should have proper pattern for user registration
2 Frontend Validations Frontend forms were tested with different set of inputs. Jest and Enzyme Forms can not submit without proper inputs
3 Joins in the database
  • After Course registration of a student, Course and Student and Attendance Collection details were tested.
  • Course and Lecturer collections was tested
  • Course and TimeTable collections were tested
    •      		JUnit
  • Attendance details were join correctly with Course and the Student
  • Lecturer collection joins correctly with course collection.
  • Course collection joins correctly with Timetable collection
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    4 Lecture Attendance Tested whether correct present days,absent days and attendance percentages of student is calculated after adding attendance of a lecture by hardware device JUnit Attendance details are correctly calculated and stored in the database.
    5 UI Testing in Mobile App
  • Mobile App UI s were tested with different user inputs.
  • Button clicks were checked with different pressed times to see output
    •      		Expresso
  • Forms can not submit without proper inputs
  • Only registered students can log in
  • No matter which time duration button was pressed.It gives the correct function after button was released.
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    6 Performance Testing in website
  • Test the performance of the website by metrics such as first paint and time to interactive to determine lag.
  • Test the HTTPS usage to correct image aspect ratios.
  • Check for best practices to ensure site is discoverable.
  • Check for common issues that may prevent users from accessing website content.
    •      		Web.dev
  • performance is quite low the following reasons may be possible
    1. Usage of unencoded images
    2. Bad aspect ratios of images
    3. Bad API response time
  • Accessibility and Best practices are at a good level
  • SEO is very high because website is hosted in AWS and AWS is take care of SEO

    • Hardware Testing

    Unit Testing

    Every Component (Fingerprint,RFID module,SD card module, ...) should be tested for proper functionality.

    Sensor What will be Tested Importance
    1 RFID sensor
  • Test the results according to the environment in which the tag is being read.
  • Test the distance range and the orientation of the tag.
    •      		Accuracy of identifying the tags should be high
    2 Fingerprint sensor
  • Ability to scan a fingerprint.
  • Test the tolerance level of the sensor.
    •      		Accuracy of identifying the fingerprints should be high
    3 Push Buttons
  • Debouncing of push buttons.
    •      		To improve UX with debouncing of push buttons
    4 LCD Display
  • Test the screen clearness of the LCD display under different light conditions
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    • LCD display screen must be clear to use the hardware device.
    • Letters and numbers must be clearly visible
    5 SD Card module
  • Test the ability to create files in unique names
  • Test the ability to write and delete files
  • Test the ability to delete files
    •      		To properly handle the connection failure or power failure conditions

    Testing Power Supplies

    After soldering testing power supplies one by one

    1. Main power input(Battery)
      • check ripple voltages (using oscillator)
      • Is noise acceptable
    2. Micro Controller circuit
      • checking connectivity (using Oscilloscope or Logic probe)
      • check the basic functioning
    3. Sensors
      • checking connectivity
      • check the basic functioning

    Cloud Deployment

    Demonstration

    Website

    Mobile App

    Hardware Device - Part 01

    Hardware Device - Part 02

    Budget

    Future Developments & Plans

  • develop mobile app for ios platform
  • Introduce the product into ,
    1. Universities
    2. Post graduate institutes
    3. Technical schools
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    Team

    We are 3rd year Computer Engineering Students of University of Peradeniya

    Eranadana Wijerathna

    E/16/399
    Computer Engineering Undergraduate

    Saubhagya Munasinghe

    E/16/242
    Computer Engineering Undergraduate

    Nuwan Piyarathna

    E/16/286
    Computer Engineering Undergraduate

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