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Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App

Many institutions of higher learning (IHL) are moving towards the establishment of a sustainable campus. In addition, budget cuts in IHL demand innovative ways of transforming business processes for efficiency and savings. Attendance taking is one of the many routine processes in many settings rangi...

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Main Authors: Hui Keng Lau, Chung Seng Kheau
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sabah 2017
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LB2801-3095 School administration and organization
QA71-90 Instruments and machines
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/1/Sustainable%20Campus.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/2/Sustainable%20Campus1.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/
https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/BIMP-EAGA/article/view/1141
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spelling my.ums.eprints.331752022-07-12T20:34:04Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/ Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App Hui Keng Lau Chung Seng Kheau LB2801-3095 School administration and organization QA71-90 Instruments and machines Many institutions of higher learning (IHL) are moving towards the establishment of a sustainable campus. In addition, budget cuts in IHL demand innovative ways of transforming business processes for efficiency and savings. Attendance taking is one of the many routine processes in many settings ranging from seminars, trainings, meetings, workshops, and classes. Although it may seem insignificant, it actually uses huge amount of resources due to its frequency of practice. In any IHL, there can be up to a total of hundreds of meetings, classes, trainings, workshops, and seminars. In addition to the resources for printing, many pen and papers are used. Therefore, re-engineering of this practice can offer cost and time savings. With the advancement of technologies and the ubiquitous of mobile devices, this paper proposes an innovative way of taking attendance with the integration of beacon devices with mobile technologies. A beacon is a device that uses Bluetooth Low Energy to broadcast its universally unique identifier. This new technology offers advantages in terms of cost and indoor positioning over other technogies such as Global Positioning System, QR code, and Radio Frequency Identification. Universiti Malaysia Sabah 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/1/Sustainable%20Campus.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/2/Sustainable%20Campus1.pdf Hui Keng Lau and Chung Seng Kheau (2017) Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App. Journal of BIMP-EAGA Regional Development, 3 (1). pp. 95-104. ISSN 2232-1055 https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/BIMP-EAGA/article/view/1141
institution Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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language English
English
topic LB2801-3095 School administration and organization
QA71-90 Instruments and machines
spellingShingle LB2801-3095 School administration and organization
QA71-90 Instruments and machines
Hui Keng Lau
Chung Seng Kheau
Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App
description Many institutions of higher learning (IHL) are moving towards the establishment of a sustainable campus. In addition, budget cuts in IHL demand innovative ways of transforming business processes for efficiency and savings. Attendance taking is one of the many routine processes in many settings ranging from seminars, trainings, meetings, workshops, and classes. Although it may seem insignificant, it actually uses huge amount of resources due to its frequency of practice. In any IHL, there can be up to a total of hundreds of meetings, classes, trainings, workshops, and seminars. In addition to the resources for printing, many pen and papers are used. Therefore, re-engineering of this practice can offer cost and time savings. With the advancement of technologies and the ubiquitous of mobile devices, this paper proposes an innovative way of taking attendance with the integration of beacon devices with mobile technologies. A beacon is a device that uses Bluetooth Low Energy to broadcast its universally unique identifier. This new technology offers advantages in terms of cost and indoor positioning over other technogies such as Global Positioning System, QR code, and Radio Frequency Identification.
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author Hui Keng Lau
Chung Seng Kheau
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Chung Seng Kheau
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title Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App
title_short Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App
title_full Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App
title_fullStr Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable Campus: Innovating Attendance Taking with The Use of Beacon-integrated Mobile App
title_sort sustainable campus: innovating attendance taking with the use of beacon-integrated mobile app
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sabah
publishDate 2017
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/1/Sustainable%20Campus.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/2/Sustainable%20Campus1.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33175/
https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/BIMP-EAGA/article/view/1141
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