wifi location, track, Wifi router for location tracking

[Harshal Dhake]

Hi i need help for a project i am doing.

I am trying for a project to mark attendence of students in a class using wifi router and MAC addresses of individual students' phones. But since the most routers can't handle more than 10/20 connections at a time so i was thinking of connecting a few  phones at a time, for each one when it has connected, matching it with database and mark attendence for that hour and give that phone timeout for the next hour to wait for next lecture and the cycle to be continued for whole day.

 

 

I want to ask if this is possible and if so , then how? 

[BrinkGG]

8 minutes ago, Harshal Dhake said:

Hi i need help for a project i am doing.

I am trying for a project to mark attendence of students in a class using wifi router and MAC addresses of individual students' phones. But since the most routers can't handle more than 10/20 connections at a time so i was thinking of connecting a few  phones at a time, for each one when it has connected, matching it with database and mark attendence for that hour and give that phone timeout for the next hour to wait for next lecture and the cycle to be continued for whole day.

 

 

I want to ask if this is possible and if so , then how? 

Consumer wireless APs can usually handle around 100 "idle" or low load devices before they start to struggle with connections, so unless you have a very large class, a simpler router like an Archer C7 could handle the connections you're talking about. 

 

As for the time out, set your DHCP lease time to just under the time in class. If the period is 65 minutes long, set DHCP for 1 hour. That'll make it so new devices will get IPs when they join in. You can also expand your DHCP range to make sure you don't run out of IPs as you'll be cycling devices through a lot. 

[mtz_federico]

45 minutes ago, Harshal Dhake said:

Hi i need help for a project i am doing.

I am trying for a project to mark attendence of students in a class using wifi router and MAC addresses of individual students' phones. But since the most routers can't handle more than 10/20 connections at a time so i was thinking of connecting a few  phones at a time, for each one when it has connected, matching it with database and mark attendence for that hour and give that phone timeout for the next hour to wait for next lecture and the cycle to be continued for whole day.

 

 

I want to ask if this is possible and if so , then how? 

You could use an Access Point instead.

I think that using Bluetooth might be better, you could get each device Bluetooth address and just listen for nearby devices on a computer