Design and Implementation of a Computerized Students ID-card Processing System
CHAPTER ONE
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This project will be tested based on the following aims and objectives:
- To examine the recent procedures employed in IMT Enugu with regards to ID-card processing.
- To design a system with the capability of providing a wait-and-take processed ID-card.
- To design an ID-card processing system that ensures timely processing.
- To improve on the already existing system by designing a successful, secured privacy and reliable ID-card processing system that will help in providing complementary help to ID-card processing personnel through the availability of computerized information.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
The literature review of literature related to ID-card processing system for students and non-students where carried out by the researcher of this project work. ID-card processing books journals and unpublished thesis were consulted.
The literature review mainly concentrated on the student ID-card, security ID badge system and processing system with regards to ID-cards, starter system, digital video duplex system, high production system, camera system, duplex digital video camera and security ID badge system.
SECURITY ID BADGE SYSTEM
Employee ID: According to Vincent .O. (2001) in his book “Security ID Badge System” says Employee ID organizations use a variety of technologies for access control including magnetic stripes smarts cards, proximity cards and biometrics. The organization provides full compatibility with this technology. So you can implement their solutions without replacing your current access control systems. They also offer software program that allows you to verify identities as people enter your facility.
Today people don’t enter facility through your front door. They access your organization from home, on the road and through the Internet. So while photo ID’s and access control are components of an enterprise-wise solution the development of a central image database will expand your security options. The organization can help you create, manage and utilized a central image database. An image database offers a variety of immediate uses, such as Badge insurance and ID verifications and it provides a platform for the system you will use to ensure safety and competitiveness.
Government: Vincent also went further to emphasis that government agencies can issue a variety of related cads such as entitlement card’s health and other benefit cards, birth certificate, hunting and fishing licenses, boating license, dog license, firearm registration and more. Their systems helps in producing a cost effective ID card in a matter of minute with your choice of personalization features including high resolution photo-magnetic stripes, smart card chips, bars-codes, logos, text digitized signature and temper resistant top coats.
Health Care System: Health care systems allows you to supply cards of employee and patients to help support your security needs and develop loyalty to your organization. They offer flexible cost effective solutions for producing patient Ids and employee Ids for high volume central insurance or instant insurance of health insurance membership cards. Fast IDs is applied to patient registration and information systems qualified or eligibility and payment system secure access systems employee ID systems.
CHAPTER THREE
DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
The researcher investigated the current system of ID-card processing system in IMT Enugu. The system generally involves mainly the manual process and is discussed under the following processes. When a student visit the processing department for the purpose of ID-card, his/her personal data will be entered in record and he/she haves and come backs after some days to collect the processed ID-card.
FACT FINDING AND METHOD USED
In fact finding, both primary and secondary source were used in this study. The primary source of fact-finding is the one that produce the interview held with the ID-card processing personnel at Fcai. The researchers also had the right of observing how the students wait and collect their processing and processed ID-cards apart from the primary source of information, journals, libraries, magazines, ID-cards processing books, unpublished materials, Internet websites were also used as a secondary source of fact finding.
CHAPTER FOUR
DESIGN OF THE SYSTEM
This chapter covers the design of the proposed system after a detailed study of the existing manual system.
The proposed system would be the design for the ID-card processing system for processing ID-card for students in FCA ishuagu, and from the reason just mentioned an improvement on the existing system. It will redefined an existing system forms to include modified or additional data items. This makes it possible to perform the specific operation in order to achieve performance requirements of the new system. The new system had to be designed in a way as to make the user interface as comfortable and reassured as possible. Since the users may have little knowledge in the software program this will help the user to collect the processing data and display calculated results.
CHAPTER FIVE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM
This chapter presents individual programs and suit that were designed progressively to identify tasks and functions. The software program has been tasted and proves to a high degree of accuracy. The Qbasic programming language was also used in this work, which is able to manage and manipulate an ID-card processing system efficiently just like a user is able to make good use of his memory to help him in processing ID-card system and model. The knowledge base used for the package is also up to date and validate to make for accurate result. There is a friendlier user interface approach for working with the database file. Debugging program was done interactively.
PROGRAM DESIGN
The program was design in such a way that it will serve as a tutor to certain ID-card processing, incorporated also is certain; well designed ID-card processing system for users.
Basically, the program consists of six modules namely:
- Information processing
- Preview of ID-card
- Retrieve of ID-card
- Delete of ID-card
- Exit.
All modules resume to their calling program and the way the user can exist currently from the entire program is through the main menu. All these were design to ensure modularity, clarity and optimality of the program for the user. Also integrating the program with button driver’s structure was done in-order to simplify the writing testing and maintenance of the software.
RECOMMENDATION
Without any doubt, much light has been shed on the design and implementation of a computerized ID card processing system. It has been therefore been proved that a well programmed ID card processing system can process a students ID card better and faster than a manual processing system. For these reasons, manual ID card processor that specialized is students ID card should resort to the use of this expert system in their work. This system is generally recommended in schools where there are regular and part time students including adult schools, secondary school, primary and nurse, schools.
Since the benefits and essentials of computer in ID card processing field has not yet been fully explored especially in Nigeria, a service wide education. Campaign should be organized to instruct lecturers, principals, vice chancellor, rectors, teachers and tutors as to the importance of computer in schools. Government should help in this aspect either by purchasing and installing computers in all government owned schools. Users training by computer analysts/programmers is essential so that the electronic tool can become familiar enough to the users.
Because of the shortness of time during the research (a major limitation). The researcher were unable to incorporate non-students ID card in their expert processing system. So the function researchers on this work should incorporate non-student’s ID card like the staff, company workers etc.
CONCLUSION
Based on the following findings, the following conclusion were reached, the implementation of this expert processing system will be a big relief to different schools. It has been proved and concluded that the implementation of this system will cause the following major achievement to be realized in our schools.
Improvement on the existing system in terms of efficiency, security and reliability. Therefore computers have had profound effect in our lives we should better get ready for it, for we are in the midst of computer revolution and live in the computer age.
Reduction of the contact time between a manual ID card processor and a student as a result of the high processing speed of the computer in the needed information to the manual processor, beginning from the student’s information processing to the printing of the student’s ID card.
There will be the ability to provide on the sport processed ID card.
Records and reprint of students are now easily retrieved with increased data security.
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- Kumar S. An application of patter card processing (Http://www.idcard/ftp/psz//sibwartz.html).
