Control of attendance applied in higher education through mobile NFC technologies

This paper presents an improved attendance control system, required for continuous evaluation which has become compulsory following the Bologna Process. It provides a solution based on NFC technology and is based on a real project developed and pilot tested at the “Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Campus Madrid”.

► Here is an expert system to reduce the efforts by the teacher in the Bologna Process.
► After a study of different solutions we implements NFC Smartphones to help them.
► NFC technologies shows an excellent behavior in the case of study using web services.
► The results show professors and students satisfied with the prototype.