BYPASS
a Gateway
The problem BYPASS solves
This project solves the hectic way of taking attendance by digitizing it, making it more secure and efficient.
This solution saves time and efforts taken in marking and managing attendance manually.
Checking In and Out details will be stored and maintained so it can be accessed anytime.
Backup of each data can be maintained on cloud reducing the risk of data loss.
Attendance isn't maintained for just classes but also for hostels and institutions. In and Out movements which generally required the permission of high authority of the institution, which is also covered in our solution.
Student needs to apply for a pass to get permission from high authority and if the authority approves it, the student can check out the institution for which also the records will be maintained.
There will a permitted time till before the student have to come back otherwise there will be an alert sent to students and their parents or guardian.
Challenges we ran into
First and the most important challenge was to make a portable system to achieve the desired outcome. For this we decided to use the CCTV cameras mounted in the classroom to mark the attendance of classes and a mobile application to monitor the in and out movements of individuals in the campus. We use mobile phone cameras as we all have it nowadays and guards can use it easily.
It was a challenge to make a facial recognition system work with small amount of face data. We overcame this by using Data Augmentation techniques.
Next was to tackle the flow of data. We used MySql to handle all the data and made different tables for storing.