FYP 2 Week 14 (Final Week):Final Year Project Industry Day

Aim:

• As to fulfilled the requirement of Final Year Project assessment

Activities Discussion:

Conclusion:

• Hopefully, I will be on my top form to do the best for my presentation tomorrow. May ALLAH ease everything for me and the other participant. Amin Allahumma amin.... =)

FYP 2 Week 13: Poster Design

Aim:

• To design a poster presentation with flowing specification given
• To produce a interactive and easy to understand poster layout.

Activities Discussion:

On this week, I required to design a poster for my final year project presentation by using Microsoft Power Point. By observing previous student's poster who already taken the FYP subject, I manage to get some idea and inspiration in designing my own poster. After completing my poster design, I have show my work to my supervisor to see whether she like it or not. With some discussion, there is a slight change on my poster according to her opinion. At the end of my poster design, all specifications have include on the poster as shown in figure below.

Conclusion:

• All the specification required in the poster layout have been included in my poster design.

• The poster must print on A1 paper size and must ready before my presentation date which is next friday. 

FYP 2 Week 10-12: Develop a fingerprint login system

Aim:

• To match and retrieve a fingerprint template from a database
• To save and retrieve a time log from the database.
• To develop a login system using fingerprint template.

Activities Discussion:

As we already know, everyone have their own fingerprint. Fingerprint has it unique characteristic because there is no people have a same fingerprint template. On the duration, I try to use a fingerprint template as a password. I have to identify what type of data for a fingerprint template that I must save in SQL database.  Basically, for my project, I store the fingerprint along with employee data profile. I made a little bit modification from a previous registration. As shown in figure 1 and 2, it is the registration form to register or remove an employee. This registration only can access by authorized admin.

Figure 1

Figure 2

For the fingerprint image, Digital Persona provides a SDK that allow me to integrated fingerprint biometric into my VB.net application. This tool enables me to perform basic fingerprint operations such as capturing a fingerprint from scanner, extracting the distinctive features from the captured fingerprint sample and storing the resulting data in a template. At the beginning to perform this basic operation, there is several error displays on my application shown in the figure 3 below. 

Figure 3

I had been stuck in this situation for quite long period of time. After searching this kind of error on stackflow.com, I managed to solve it. It is because my application must include the several function of the device in the reference. 

Figure 4

By understand the SQL server works, the constructing of time log database have been easy. In figure 6, it shown the access system for employee after the fingerprint granted (figure 5); fingerprint template is match with the employee database.

Figure 5

Basically, on the access system, I just designed a simple layout and also time access.By retrieve the employee data from the employee’s database, it will display all the information on the application window.

The time access is store in another database that I created which the RegLog database is shown in the figure below. So, every time employee enters the access system, it will record the time entry and save it on this database.

Conclusion:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187752.aspx-  this is the link that I use to study about data type in SQL server.

• It is important to understand SQL server principle and functionality first when constructing a SQL database.In other word, you  must understand how it works before you build something.

• Digital Persona SDK provides me a helpful hand for developing this application by interfacing the fingerprint device with VB.net programming.

• At the end of week 12, all objective have been successful achieved I managed to run the application smoothly after solving a several error. I also modify the system according to my supervisor advice.