Developing an access control system for students’ identification in higher institutions of learning using biometric technique
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2019-09
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Kampala International University, School of Computing and Information Technology
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Biometric technology is a technique that is capable of uniquely identifying a person through his/her characteristics features. The use of this approach is gaining ground in recent times, particularly in higher institution of learning where impersonation is currently at alarming rate. The technology offers a reliable solution for solving recognition problem through features such as: fingerprint, faces, iris, palm print etc. The main objective of this study is to implement a system that uses fingerprint to identify registered students of Kano State Polytechnic and further track their attendance during lectures and examinations. This study developed a system, configure the system and ensure proper synchronization with a biometric device. The system was developed using dot net framework. Specifically, visual basic.net is used for coding all the interactive interfaces, while SQL server 2008 was used as the back-end. In order to establish the efficiency of the developed system in terms of usability, its usability was determined using the approach of System Usability Scale (SUS). A total of 60 students participated in the study by navigating through the system and based on their interactions, they responded to the structured questionnaire designed to test the system’s usability. The result of evaluating the usability of the system based on the SUS approach gave 82.7%. Hence, the system was found to be very accurate, reliable and secured for keeping students bio data and it restricts access to intruders that is unregistered person. Thus, it was concluded that, this system is an indispensable tool for curtailing impersonation by students and for keeping authentic records of students. Hence, the relevance and academic importance of this system cannot be over emphasizing. Thus, in order to bring an end to the rampant cases of impersonations during lectures and examinations in the institutions of higher learning. Kano State Polytechnic in particular can adopt the system developed in this study for total eradication of such menace.
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Being a dissertation submitted to the College of Higher Degrees and Research in partial fulfilment the requirement for the award of the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science, Kampala International University
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Access Control system, Students’ Identification, Higher institutions of Learning, Biometric technique