Inspiration
Humans should do only those things which really involves use of brain and must not do mundane ,repetitive tasks , CLASSROOM ATTENDANCE is one of them . A huge time waster for both students and faculty .
What it does
Faculty just needs to take a snap of students sitting in classroom and it will automatically mark and save attendance of students in cloud .
How I built it
App uses MS Project Oxford Face API for identifying students in group image taken by faculty/professor of all students and saves attendance record in cloud .
Challenges I ran into
Feeling cold in night ,rest all was manageable .
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Phottendance as an attendance solution has a definitive edge over other attendance trackers . For e.g. , most of hardware attendance trackers either based on RFID cards , Biometric (thumb impression) etc require a hardware purchase , installation and maintenance charges , on the other Phottendance just needs to be downloaded and is ready to use with zero investment or maintenance .
What I learned
Constraints enforce creativity . I wanted to make a hardware solution for the same but since I'm not that strong with hardware , I focused how the same thing can be achieved by code and cloud . As a result , I developed a totally cloud based solution . I'm sure there are many areas where virtualization can reduce our dependency on hardware.
What's next for Phottendance
Currently , it's just a Proof Of Concept app . I plan to expand it to more general use cases including but not limited to classroom attendance .
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