Mobile Attendance using Near Field Communication and One-Time Password

This paper introduces a Near Field Communication (NFC) supported College M-Attendance system for University Students. Near Field Communication (NFC) is one of the latest technologies in radio communications and being a subset of RFID technology, it is growing at an enormous pace. NFC technology provides the fastest way to communicate between two devices and it happens within a fraction of a second. It has several applications in Mobile Communications and transactions. An NFC-supported College M-Attendance system for University Students is discussed as one potential use of this technology. The proposed framework replaces manual roll calls and hence, making it resilient to forgery. It gives parents and professors information about the students' attendance. The marking of attendance is quick, unsupervised, and makes use of a One Time Password (OTP) to enhance the security of the system and takes away the possibility of proxy attendance. This paper discusses NFC as a technology that is more secure and convenient than the prevalent technology of Bluetooth, and also elaborates on the proposed framework of the M-Attendance system that makes use of this advantage that NFC has over other technologies.