RFID/NFC Attendance on a Mac
Tap-card attendance with RFID/NFC readers (self-hosted) · Student Information Systems
A self-hosted attendance system built around RFID/NFC tap cards (or QR badges): students tap a card on a reader at the door and a web backend records the timestamp, builds registers and pushes to your SIS. There's no single vendor — it's a pattern you assemble from an RFID/NFC reader (e.g. an ACR122U USB reader, a PN532 module, or an ESP32/Raspberry Pi with an RC522) plus an open-source backend. Run the backend on this Mac or a linked server (a small web app + database), expose it on your LAN, and reverse-proxy it. Many open-source projects on GitHub implement the reader→web→database flow; pick one that matches your reader and SIS. Pairs with the Moodle attendance plugin or your SIS's attendance import. For a turnkey cloud option instead, see SchoolPass.
Run RFID/NFC Attendance with FrontierStack
FrontierStack lists RFID/NFC Attendance in its Student Information Systems catalog. Install or connect it from one place, then monitor its status, ports and certificate, secure it with the firewall and Malware Audit, and back it up.
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