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Smart Attendance Checking System based on BLE using a Beacon

BLE 기반의 비콘을 이용한 스마트 출석 확인 시스템

  • Ahn, Sung-Woo (Subdivision of Computer Engineering, Kyungnam College of Information & Technology)
  • 안성우 (경남정보대학교 컴퓨터계열)
  • Received : 2015.12.28
  • Accepted : 2016.02.24
  • Published : 2016.02.25
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Abstract

In an environment of IoT services, sensors to track things and human activities are included as an essential element and smart phone is actively used as a means of collecting and processing information from sensors. Especially, wireless communication and NFC provided by the smart phone are key technologies for exchanging information between participants of IoT service. In this paper, we propose and implement the smart attendance checking system based on BLE using a beacon for improving the quality of a university lecture by processing attendance information automatically. Proposed system uses the beacon sensor for being aware of attendance information and the smart phone for receiving and processing this information. The implemented system has the benefit to improve the lecture quality because a professor can minimize attendance checking time and spend a lot of time on the lecture.

사물인터넷 서비스 환경에서는 사물과 인간의 활동을 추적하는 센서가 기본 요소로 포함되며, 정보를 수집하고 처리하는 매개수단으로 스마트폰이 적극 활용되고 있다. 특히, 사물인터넷 구현 시에 스마트폰에서 제공하는 무선 및 근거리통신기술은 정보 교환을 위해 꼭 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 출석정보의 확인을 자동으로 처리하여 대학 강의의 질을 향상시킬 수 있도록 비콘과 BLE 기반의 스마트 출석 확인 시스템을 제안하고 구현한다. 제안한 시스템은 강의실 출입을 자동으로 인식하기 위한 센서로 비콘을 사용하고, 학생과 교수의 스마트폰에서 제공하는 BLE 통신을 매개수단으로 사용한다. 제안한 시스템을 사용함으로써 교수는 출석확인 시간을 최소화하여 좀 더 강의에 시간을 투자할 수 있어 강의의 질을 높일 수 있는 장점이 있다.

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