Abstract:
Proposed a portable system which maintains the attendance record of students and staff automatically. Our system, takes the attendance list over a significant piece of time, fair amount of time wastage, composing and marking. Students and staff are neglecting as well as ignoring to sign the attendance paper and lecture attendance. It is necessary to move away from this conventional system and need to provide better solution for the problem which is being faced. IOT is the key medium to solve the said problem. This system uses a biometric concept to facilitate the attendance system in educational institutes. A biometric device is used to mark the attendance without the intervention of the teacher. This project enables the easy way of maintaining class attendance with fewer efforts, this will save time wasting on calling out names and it gives a full-proof method of attendance marking. All marked attendance of students and staffs record will be stored in the MQSL database and latter for analysis further.

Introduction:
Our project presents a simple and portable approach to employ attendance in the form of an Internet of Things (IOT) based system that records the attendance using fingerprint based biometric scanner and stores them securely over cloud. The idea of this project was taken to overcome all the issues in all previous technologies and make data in digitized way. Attendance is a concept that exists in different places like institutions, organizations, hospitals, etc. during the start and end of the day to mark a person’s presence. Since the past, the traditional way of taking attendance in a class includes a pen, attendance book or registers and a person. Thus, the drawbacks arise as it consumes time, needs manual work and the most important, information or the attendance can be manipulated. Also, there are chances of employ not responding to their attendance and later claiming for the attendance. The new procedure of taking attendance using fingerprint is easier and therefore overcomes all the above-mentioned drawbacks. Apart from this, forging a signature in an attendance sheet may also happen. The work in-creases much more if the class strength is more. Hence, a lot of work force has to be put into attendance verification and analysis. In any IOT based system, the hardware consists of a combination of sensors, microcontroller, display, and the most important, hardware providing access to the internet. The Fingerprint technology serves as an identity proof to take the attendance of students. This project uses the concept of Internet of Things to set up a smart attendance tracking system.

Objectives:
The implementation of a Fingerprint -based attendance system for an college using IoT (Internet of Things) can serve various objectives, enhancing efficiency, security, and overall management.
Here are some key objectives:
• Accurate attendance tracking
• Security Enhancement
• Real-time monitoring