CampusCore: An Integrated Cloud-Connected Smart Campus Platform with RFID Attendance and a Tamper-Evident Audit Trail

CampusCore specifies an integrated, four-layer platform that links RFID attendance, a timetable-aware rule engine, live role-based dashboards, an academic hub, digital library services, event-driven guardian alerts and a tamper-evident audit design, together with requirements, schema, API, security controls and an 89-case test plan. Its main value is a single, traceable blueprint sized for 500 to 5,000 students. Future work proceeds in stages: build a bench prototype to measure capture latency; implement the backend and dashboards and run the planned tests; then add the Hyperledger Fabric ledger. Longer-term extensions are a QR-based backup, a mobile application with push notifications, AI-based analytics for performance prediction and dropout-risk analysis (for which classification methods such as the fusion approach in [18] and sampling-based learning on large data [19] may be relevant), biometric or facial recognition, and multi-institution deployment.

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