Biometric Student Attendance System Essay

Software Requirements Specification for Biometric Student Attendance System

Version 1.0 approved

Prepared by

Junaid Iqbal 01

M. Naeem 26

Mubashar Akram 28

Kashif Rasheed 32

Usman Ghani 42

J & U

15-04-2016

Table of Contents

Table of Contents ii

Revision History ii

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Purpose 1

1.2 Document Conventions 1

1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions 1

1.4 Product Scope 1

1.5 References 1

2. Overall Description 2

2.1 Product Perspective 2

2.2 Product Functions 2

2.3 User Classes and Characteristics 2

2.4 Operating Environment 2

2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints 2

2.6 User Documentation 2

2.7 Assumptions and Dependencies 3

3. External Interface Requirements 3

3.1 User Interfaces 3

3.2 Hardware Interfaces 3

3.3 Software

With the rise of globalization, it is becoming essential to find an easier and more effective system to help an institution to improve its students’ information. In spite of this matter, there are still business establishments that use the old-fashioned method of manual process of recording students’ attendance. Hence, students’ attendance is an important issue in every institution. Carrying different cards is a significant issue for individuals and organizations.

A secure and effective identity management system plays an important role in the successful deployment of an attendance management system. To make the identity management system more secure and reliable for authentication, biometrics data are integrated in the attendance management systems.

Today, biometric is being spotlighted as the authentication method because of the need for reliable security. Fingerprint authentication is one of the most well-known and publicized biometrics technologies. Because of their uniqueness and consistency over time, fingerprints have been in use for identification for over a century, more recently becoming automated due to advancements in computed capabilities.

2.2 Product

It uses the most reliable way of uniquely identifying students through fingerprint reading. Such type of application is very useful in school as well as in college for daily attendance. Through this application we can keep a systematic track of student's attendance. This project enables the easy way of maintaining class attendance with fewer efforts. It can be later implemented for the teaching staff. But at the moment, students are the most important users of this product.

2.4 Operating Environment

OE-1: The Attendance Management System shall function on the PC provided by the college. This entails the system to operate on the Windows CE platform.

OE-2: The Attendance Management System shall interface between Windows CE designated to store the attendance records. The Web Server and Database Software have not been established at this point.

OE-3: The Attendance Management System will record all the essentials details of each particular student.

OE-4: Pentium processor 3.0 GHz or higher, 256MB RAM and Hard Drive of more than 1GB.

2.5 User Documentation

UD-1: The system will provide an online user manual in HTML that describes the functionality and options available to the user.

UD-2: The system will provide a hard copy of the user manual, which is identical to the manual outlined in