Hyderabad: Kartikeya Bhardwaj, a Mahindra University student, has created an app for contactless admission via facial recognition, following a casual request by his father to provide a substitute to the older attendance marking methods, reported EdexLive.
A former intern at Larson and Toubro Infotech and experienced in facial recognition software, the 22-year-old inventor worked on a prototype in Raspberry Pi and hired three interns to work on an app, creating ‘Chakshu Face Attendance’, a touchless employee and student attendance recording app.
The app relies on the employer’s database, containing employee details like photos, ID, shift timings, department details etc. Employees need to stand before a device with the app, and the facial recognition software marks their in-time, with a similar procedure for marking their out time.
Kartikeya said that all the relevant information can be accessed via a web dashboard, and the software generates excel sheets with information about in and out times of employees, which is then emailed to the registered email ID.
Calling facial recognition a “huge market in India”, he added that for the second version, he plans to “integrate the app with payroll, HRIS (Human Resource Management System)”, along with attendance pattern detection and more.