Near Field Communication Internet of Things (NFC-IoT) Based University Examination Monitoring System

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The current university student examination management system and

the challenges associated with it leave much to be desired. In spite

of the proliferation of modern computing technologies in the

education sector, the university management has continued to suffer

from the manual process of performing academic and administrative

functions of several institutions. For instance, the obsolete process

of students’ school fees receipt verification during examination has

been found to be cumbersome as well as time consuming and could

also distract the attention of the students while writing their

examinations. The case is also the same for taking students’

attendance. Over time, it has been observed that the manual method

of examination invigilation and supervision has led to students

deceiving invigilators by writing, answering or registering

attendance in proxy for other students. This method also creates the

room for students to outsmart invigilators by smuggling into the

examination hall, scanned or forged identity cards and school fee

receipts. In addition, valuable time is wasted on marking attendance

of students who were present in the examination hall but did not

enroll for the course because no automated system on ground to

ascertain the eligibility of candidates for an examination. To solve

these problems, Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is

used in this work to process examination attendance registration and

the school fee verification system. The test carried out on interfacing

the various hardware and software modules shows that the system is

efficient and reliable.