Literature Review

Smart cards are programmed to perform tasks and store information. Smart cards currently are used in telephone, transportation, banking, and heahhcare transactions. Smart card can store lots of information and can perform multiple functions in a wide range of industries. A recent study found that 27% of smart card applications were within banking, 18% within health and welfare and 15% within transport.

In BMI, smart cards are already implemented and are getting popularity among the BMI communities. BMI communities get many advantages by the usage of the smart card in system management. Currently, smart card is use as an id card and as an ATM bank card in BMI. This project is going to level up the usage of the smart card in BMI by using smart card to fill in class attendance. The barcode on the students' smart card will be implementing in this project.

Nowadays, barcode is frequently used in almost all industrial branches whenever an information needs to be read automatically. This literature review will focus on the advantages of using smart card to fill in class attendance, the feature of smart card, the application of bar code on smartcard, the usage of barcode reader to implement class attendance signing system, the related issues between barcode and class attendance signing system and the usage of PHP language in developing the class attendance signing system.

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Advantages of Using Smart Card to Fill In Class Attendance

Smart card generally, gives lots of advantages to the user. For this project, the researcher will explore the advantages of using smart card to fill in class attendance.

One of the advantages is using smart card will easier the students to fill in the class attendance. The time constraint of using smart card to fill in class attendance is small compared to the existing manual system which use attendance sheet. This is because smart card allows the system to get students' identification efficiently. The main improvement is the possibility to process the information directly on the card.

Other advantages is each student can use smart card securely because the unique identification that the smart card provide. Smart cards can of course retain a huge amount of information compared to the magnetic strip cards, but they can also manage this information much more securely, using authentication and user identification procedures.

Other advantage is using smart card in signature system can tackle student to attend to class. This is because the students know that the system can easily detect those students who regularly attend the class. The students can also view their class attendance percentage which will motivate them to control their attendance reputation.

            Usage of smart card gives advantages to the lecturer because the smart card will directly input the information of student attendance to the system. The lecturers do not have to carry the attendance sheet every class time and filing the attendance sheet manually which is not efficient Smart cards can improve access to services for the disabled and elderly. The lecturer can easily get the percentage of student attendance at the end of the semester without face the difficulties to calculate the percentage manually and view the standardize student attendance report.