Wireless attendance management system based on iris recognition

Seifedine Kadry* and Mohamad Smaili
Faculty of Science, Lebanese University, Lebanon.
Accepted 24 May, 2010

Iris recognition verification is one of the most reliable personal identification methods in Biometrics.
With the rapid development of iris recognition verification, a number of its applications have been
proposed until now including time attendance system etc. In this paper, a wireless iris recognition
attendance management system is designed and implemented using Daugman’s algorithm (Daugman,
2003). This system based biometrics and wireless technique solves the problem of spurious attendance
and the trouble of laying the corresponding network. It can make the users’ attendances more easily
and effectively.
Key words: Iris recognition verification, personal identification, biometrics, attendance management, wireless.


INTRODUCTION
While the move towards the digital era is being accelerated every hour, biometrics technologies have begun to affect people’s daily life more and more. Biometrics technologies verify identity through characteristics such as fingerprints, faces, irises, retinal patterns, palm prints, voice, hand-written signatures, and so on. These techniques, which use physical data, are receiving attention as a personal authentication method that is more convenient than conventional methods such as a password or ID cards. Biometric personal authenticcation
uses data taken from measurements. Such data is unique to the individual and remains so throughout one’s
life. This technology has been applied for controlling access to high-security facilities, but it is now being
widespread developed in information systems such as network, e-commerce, and retail applications. In these
technologies, iris recognition becomes the most mature and popular biometrics technology used in automatic
personal identification.

In the beginning, the idea of using iris patterns for personal identification was originally proposed in 1936 by

ophthalmologist Frank Burch. By the 1980's the idea had appeared in James Bond films, but it still remained
science fiction and conjecture. In 1987 two other ophthalmologists, Aran Safir and Leonard Flom, patented
this idea, and in 1989 they asked John Daugman to try to create actual algorithms for iris recognition. But now, this technology is also being used in several other applications such as access control for high security installations, credit card usage verification, and employee identification (Medien and Burghardt, 2002). The reason for the popularity of iris recognition verifying is the uniqueness, stability, permanency and easily taking. Just for this, a number of iris recognition verification approaches have been proposed until now (Zhang and
Jain, 2004; Daugman, 1994). This paper proposes a design and implementation of a wireless iris recognition
attendance management system. This system is an application of the iris recognition verifying and RF wireless
techniques and it is mainly used for employee identification. Through practices, this system is proved to
be easy-to-use and effectively. And this paper is organized as follows: In the first section, we introduce the
attendance management system with different types. Section 2 describes the technological requirements for this system design. Section 3 outlines the functions of this system briefly and describes the hardware and
software design of this system. Section 4 introduces some key problems in the implement of this system and
finally Section 5 contains conclusions and future research plan.