Attendance Made Easy, a long range student id scanner for taking class attendance.
How can we make taking attendance easier, faster, and more efficient in a classroom setting?
Current attendance taking methods are not efficient, some solutions have costs for students, and manual attendance can be distracting to students.
While there are many methods that professors use to take the class attendance, there is none that can take attendance without the interaction of both the professors and student in a way that doesn't disrupt the class.
Quickly scan, retrieve student information, mark attendance, and display name
Scanning range of 3-6 feet
Easy to read display from 5 feet, showing previous 5-10 scanned names
Software must allow manual input of students attendance record
Device should communicate with computer wirelessly
Automatically record attendance as student ID is scanned