SOLAR POWER EXAMINATION MONITORING SYSTEM

This work takes into consideration the system of examination invigilation in Nigerian universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other institutions. Over the years, the extent of students’ malpractice in examinations and the resultant effects when confronted by invigilators or institutions’ security agents have been on the increase and devastating. General moral decadence and the high premium placed on achievement and certificates by Nigerians has, in recent times, spawned examination fraud. There arose the need for an examination automated monitoring system that will handle this societal menace. This study therefore, x-rays the exact way students take examination and introduce an automated monitoring system towards regulating examinations against malpractice. It is a system of examination conduction that monitors the examination arena (halls) and stores live – fed videoed scenario for future screening and use. The system is designed and developed with webcams at the examination halls to capture the student’s face, posture and movement at every moment during examination. The captured images are stored at the server end and can be viewed later to detect those students that cheated during the examination. There is a direct link of the live – fed of the examination arena to the section of the institutions’ website known as “Institution Examination Panel” in the Polytechnic portal. When reviewed by this body, those found guilty will be appropriately sanctioned. To make this system work well, a dedicated system (Server) manned by an examination administrator is provided. Also made available are two webcams and solar panel. The new system is designed to replace the manual method of examination monitoring where the latter’s evidence of examination misconducts are always in confusion and doubt. It is believed that this new system when adopted and deployed will reduce to a drastic extent the high increase of examination malpractice in our Nigerian institutions. KEY WORDS: Examination automated monitoring system, webcams, Institution Examination Panel, Solar panel, examination malpractice, Nigerian institutions.