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.