Automated identification and security system for ECE laboratory

Abstract

The population of ECE students of Central Philippine University (CPU) is increasing and the staff of ECE Lab has the hard time monitoring students who want to access the Lab. Laboratory teachers usually require the laboratory assistants to record the time duration the student uses the laboratory. Manual log-in and logout is done for this purpose and it cannot be avoided that sometimes this system gives erroneous results and take up considerable time. This paper describes our project under Engr. Cirilo C. Calibjo which is a solution to problems inherent to manual log-in and log-out procedures. The objective of the project is to design an automated identification and security system using the M68HC11 microcomputer unit (MCU) of Motorola to remedy the problem. We developed a system which requires two sets of numbers to gain access in the lab., a prototype was made to test the functionality of our design. Although actual field implementation and testing was not possible, the prototype results were encouraging.