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How We Built PrezScan: Free Hardware-Free Biometric Attendance for Indian Universities

A developer built PrezScan, a free, hardware-free attendance web app for Indian universities that combines on-device 68-point facial recognition with campus Wi-Fi subnet (CIDR) geofencing to prevent proxy attendance. Verification runs client-side in the browser via WebGL GPU acceleration at under 200ms, and raw face photos are never transmitted or stored—only local 128-dimensional vector embeddings are evaluated, which the developer frames as compliant with India's DPDP Act 2023. The app also exports monthly attendance ledgers as formatted Excel reports.

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Every morning across engineering colleges and universities in India, hundreds of people line up in front of wall-mounted fingerprint machines that break down and cause morning delays.

To solve this, we built PrezScan (https://prezscan.onrender.com) — an independent, 100% free, hardware-free smart attendance web app engineered specifically for Indian higher-education campuses.

Dual-Lock Anti-Proxy Attendance: Enforces a physical double-lock combining on-device 68-point AI facial recognition with academic building Wi-Fi subnet (CIDR) geofencing. Marking attendance outside the campus building or buddy-punching is physically impossible.

Sub-200ms Verification: Runs client-side directly in the browser engine using WebGL GPU acceleration.

100% Privacy by Design (DPDP Act 2023 Compliant): Raw face photos are never sent over the internet or stored on servers; only local 128-dimensional mathematical vector embeddings are evaluated.

1-Click Audited Excel Reports: Monthly attendance ledgers export complete timestamps and session hours instantly in formatted spreadsheets.

• Live Web Application: [https://prezscan.onrender.com](https://prezscan.onrender.com)

• Source Code & Documentation: [https://github.com/Nitin091307/attendanceforu](https://github.com/Nitin091307/attendanceforu)
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