Abstract: Many organizations and institutions waste a lot of time and effort on a daily basis recording of attendance and providing access to each individual. The use of an attendance tracking and access control system is vital in providing high security to places like educational institutions. Physical access control system is a key for the protection of infrastructure systems, where timely access, maintenance of attendance and the security of sensitive areas are essential.

This project deals with few effective strategies. The proposed work will recommend an appropriate, accessible, dependable, efficient, and cost-effective attendance system as well as access control system. The proposed idea consists of two different methods for attendance monitoring and access control based on the level of security. For the applications with primary level of security, RFID tags are used and for the applications with intermediate level of security, fingerprint based biometric is used. RFID tags are used to provide authenticated access and timely database storage of the user details who access it. Biometric is mainly used for attendance monitoring of students and the data is maintained using IoT. One can look into user access and attendance details from any place at any time.

Keywords: Access control, Attendance monitoring, Biometric, IoT, RFID tags.

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2022.9414