Abstract: This proposed work deals with automatically registering students, recording attendance, saving students’ data on the Personal Computer (PC) as well as backing this data via the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) and finally making a decision on the eligibility of a student to sit for an examination course. Owing to the challenges of the manual method of taking attendance in colleges, an automated attendance system needs to be adopted. The challenges include difficulty in keeping the attendance list over a long period of time, unnecessary time wastage during writing and signing attendance, improper documentation, students forgetting to write or sign the attendance paper, lecturers forgetting the attendance list in the classroom, students writing or signing illegally for an absentee amongst others. A modular approach was utilized in the design.

Keywords: RFID, GSM, Atmega 328p.

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2021.8324